Death Quotes · Page 525

“As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

— Christopher Fry

“Everything was going to kill you, poetry as well, and the last was the most deadly.”

— Brian Castro

So what’s on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

— Bernard Malamud

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

— Adam Smith

“The way to life is a height, but the way to death is the way of fright.”

— Dante Liccione

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

— Alice Hegan Rice

This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have…

— Rajneesh

When a door close another door open, And there's a lot of truth told in the jokin, Get ya mind right to…

— French Montana

“Our emotions are different but we have them. We never cast a cold eye on life or death. Don't misunderstand our seeming…

— Anne Rice

When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the…

— Truman Capote

The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for…

— Frederick Denison Maurice

“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its…

— John Steinbeck

Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of…

— Wilbur Smith

“Murder in a small town is always more than a paragraph in the local paper. In a place so insulated, where lives…

— Kat Rosenfield

“Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.”

— Paulo Coelho

We're all going to Hell, we may as well go out in style! Death is a promise, and your life is a…

— Bring Me The Horizon

A person who feels nothing at the death of those close to him is no different than a butcher.

— Jiraiya

“But grief always hits hard and somehow lingers longer than exultation in your mind and heart,”

— Stuart Rojstaczer

Between 'St. Anger' and 'Death Magnetic,' we had, if I'm not mistaken, five kids born. And, of course, that would allow things…

— Robert Trujillo

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

— William Mountford

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

— William Shakespeare

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

— Harriet Tubman

“True, he was tremendously boring, which really got on her nerves, but that was not a crime deserving of death. Probably.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Apollo felt as if he glowed with grief, poisoned with mourning instead of radiation.”

— Victor LaValle

Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

— John Galsworthy

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one…

— Chester Himes

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season…

— T. S. Eliot

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

— Isabel Allende

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing…

— Richard Wollheim

“The human heart needs to burden itself, to take responsibility for its losses, otherwise it will explode.”

— Charles Dubow

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

— Philip James Bailey

“Alive and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us.”

— Diana Gabaldon

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

— Xenophon

He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Then Good night," said Honor, With my final breath. "Farewell" whispered Life. "Have some wine" smiled death.”

— Scott M. Davis

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

— Ambrose Bierce