Death Quotes · Page 514

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Cancer has been the No. 1 cause of death during the last half-century. The trend is getting even worse as the average…

— Tasuku Honjo

“When your friend is decomposing, surely you owe it to them to inhale their death. To do otherwise seems impossible prim.”

— Nick Harkaway

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

— Katherine Paterson

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

— Yann Martel

“Right after my dad was shot to death in Portland while buying my mom’s birthday gift,”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

— Tom Stoppard

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be…

— Francis Bacon

“Stay," he said abruptly. "Stay, feed me. Read to me, if you like. Do not talk to me of death. Do not…

— Michelle Sagara West

Sibling relationships...outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations…

— Erica E Goode

“She would be twenty-nine in February. The month assumed an ominous and inescapable significance—making her wonder, through these nebulous half-fevered hours whether…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Only a man who does not survive his one supreme act remains the indisputable master of his identity and possible greatness because…

— Hannah Arendt

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that,…

— Anonymous

“It was always like this. Anazâr would walk into the arena, blinking back the sun, and he would think, Dying today, that…

— Anonymous

“If some lurking desires are still there, and the body is getting old and the body is not capable of fulfilling those…

— Osho

“I count everything loss, to gain anything under the power of grace in Jesus Christ.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

— Georges Bataille

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

— Ayobami Adebayo

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause”

— William Shakespeare

Follow your heart, it might hurt at times, but if you're not dying, you must be getting stronger.

— Anonymous

“We plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

— Donald Hall

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get…

— Leo Durocher

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

— David Carradine

“Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.”

— Steven Magee

“I have chosen the way of my death, which is something few of us are privileged to do.”

— Linda Sue Park

“You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you're glad it was him and not you, then you feel…

— Glen Cook

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

— Christopher Bollen

“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –”

— Simona Panova

“It is not death I fear, not anymore. I've faced dying too many times to be afraid of it.”

— Victoria Aveyard

Death does not discriminate; Some die old, some at 8. So remember during all your grief, our visit here is very brief.

— Anonymous

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

— Eckhart Tolle

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you…

— Marion Woodman

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves…

— Lin Yutang

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences…

— Kevin Spacey

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

— Terrell Owens

“Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?”

— Herman Melville

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

— Eugene O'Neill

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

— Anderson Cooper