Death Quotes · Page 506

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

— Epicurus

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

— George Santayana

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

— David Gerrold

“Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.”

— Diane Ackerman

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight…

— David Nicholls

There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die.…

— Brittany Maynard

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

— Mary Oliver

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

— Lana Del Rey

“Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning…

— Charles Wheelan

“Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also,…

— Abdal Hakim Murad

“. . . I have witnessed the strength of our people driven from their own land. The tenacious march south is like…

— Shan Sa

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the…

— Dennis C. Blair

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death… Thought is subversive…

— Bertrand Russell

When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the…

— Richard M. Nixon

“The decision to be positive is not one that disregards or belittles the sadness that exists. It is rather a conscious choice…

— Christopher Aiff

Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a…

— Joan Didion

“He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.”

— V. Theia

“You that seek what life is in death, Now find it air that once was breath.”

— Baron Brooke Fulke Greville

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born…

— Erich Fromm

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality…

— Ann Landers

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of…

— Oswald Chambers

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

— Edward Abbey

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

— Marjane Satrapi

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

— William Gilmore Simms

“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge our death.

— Jacques de Molay

I always laugh at people who strive to be famous because all you do is get mithered to death by everyone.

— Ricky Hatton

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

— Benjamin Graham

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What…

— Deepak Chopra

If you have forgotten death then youve forgotten what it truly means to be alive

— Anonymous

The little mermaid watch the happy prince with the woman he loves, then she changes into a bubble drifts and disappears into…

— The Little Mermaid

“Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.”

— Robert Fanney

You can’t pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet case to death.

— Dan Savage

“Derk was sick of falling backward into his trench, but he never had time to invent a different way of being killed.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

— C. S. Lewis

“I'm not sure I should tell you. Not while you're alive, at least. Some things are better left for after death." (Mac)”

— Marshall Thornton

“Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)”

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse…

— Anonymous

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

— Josh Billings

In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'.

— Anonymous