Death Quotes · Page 519

“But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.”

— Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

“He’s not my saviour. He’s an angel with black wings. A dealer of death. My ruin.”

— Keri Lake

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

— Mason Cooley

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

— Mae West

And the great appeal of horror fiction through the ages is that it serves as a rehearsal for our own deaths.

— Steven King

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

— Sylvester Stallone

“We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.”

— t.s. eliot

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl…

— William Shakespeare

“Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty…

— Michel Foucault

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in…

— Umberto Eco

I always knew from books and shows that the lives of circus artists are not easy, but spending time and learning from…

— Shweta Tripathi

I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible…

— Mark Lynas

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we…

— Alec Guinness

“In his imagination, he grabbed his dad by the throat and squeezed until an old mans face turned purple. No pleading, no…

— Stephen Craig

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings…

— A. S. Byatt

“In many parts of the world, ghosts are not considered to be a creation of local folklore, but a fact of life.…

— Paul Roland

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

— Johnny Carson

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy the mortality rate…

— J.K. Rowling

“Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last…

— Philip Pullman

“It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient,…

— David Jeffrey

We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.

— Victoria Beckham

Bullies cause depression, depression causes suicide, suicide is killing, killing is murder, bullies are murderers. Fuck Bullying.

— Anonymous

Life, death, love, hate, pleasure, pain. Pay me no mind but I don't have change.

— Lil Wayne

“Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for?”

— Cesar Nascimento

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live…

— Clarice Lispector

Forever we're young and we are dying and will spilling all our blood. So I will take away my feelings, I will…

— Ellie Goulding

“The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.”…

— Randy Alcorn

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.

— Austin O'Malley

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

— Milan Kundera

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

— Eli Roth

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.

— Kobo Abe

“To continue, I had to see the world with clear eyes, to focus on the essential. We only pay attention to rare…

— Kevin Powers

“You can only fight one man at a time with a sword, but, with a pen, you can compose a lecture to…

— Lindsay Buroker

“Jesus was beaten, tortured, and spit on, and then he suffered a horrific death to pay for the sins of the world.”

— Irene Garcia

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

— Richard Eberhart

“Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

— Torrey Smith

“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still…

— Robert E. Howard

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

— Elizabeth Edwards