Death Quotes · Page 509

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

— Hugh Prather

“Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?”

— Amie Kaufman

“When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.”

— Shannon Alder

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the…

— Nhat Hanh

“I could not burn your mortality from your body, so live before your days are gone and regret fills your heart.”

— Janell Rhiannon

This concept of turning dying into flying is a metaphor for my basic life principle.

— Dean Potter

“I know that I’m here until this is over. Until either they’re dead or I am. Alina’s death will be avenged.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger”

— Kate Grenville

“But we are not going to talk about that right now, because to talk about it I'll have to think about it,…

— Jonathan Tropper

“But she had nothing. She had forbidden music. Grating her fingers in the bark, she damned the audience. Panic seized her. Blood…

— Virginia Woolf

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws,…

— Jonathan Shapiro

“I believe that there is something connecting us ... Something that was here before we got here and will still be here…

— Dani Shapiro

“Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five.…

— Jill S. Alexander

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best…

— Millicent Fawcett

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain…

— Danica McKellar

The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“Naked we were born, naked shall we return to grave. What then is the toil?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

— Haruki Murakami

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

— Dean Cavanagh

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

— William Shakespeare

“Something wicked flashed in the depth of his eyes before his lip curved into a smile. “Not every day you get to…

— Michelle Gross

The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.

— Woody Allen

When I saw my father's death it was not human, he was less better than an animal and I didn't want the…

— Park Yeon-mi

“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.”

— Steven Ramirez

There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.

— Lucian

Soundtracks are made all the time that die horrible deaths - even soundtracks for popular movies.

— Eric Carmen

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

— Shalom Auslander

“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.”

— Christopher Fowler

“a stone image shed a miraculous tear of compassion over the incertitudes of life and death…”

— Joseph Conrad

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

— Greg Iles

I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.

— Kara Swisher

“She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.”

— David Levithan

“There is no heaven or hell. No matter what you do while you're alive, everybody goes to the same place once you…

— Tsugumi Ohba

“And miss the final journey? Never! I wish to take notes on dying, my friend. To my knowledge I have never done…

— Mary Victoria

We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and…

— Jennifer Stone

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

— Mark Twain

Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part.

— Robert Ryan

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

— Jamie Zawinski