Death Quotes · Page 551

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

— Pope John XXIII

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form…

— Douglas MacArthur

“Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was dying since the day they were born.”

— Lisa Loeb

“so even an assassin can make the flowers grow." -variations on the death of Trotsky”

— David Ives

Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes…

— George Carlin

“People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.”

— Haruki Murakami

The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

— Anonymous

“Living for myself ends at myself, and that is very small place to end.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my…

— Giovanna Cau

“The smallest sprout shows there is really no death; And if ever there was, it led forward life, and does not wait…

— Walt Whitman

“There was this feeling that you got when your video went viral. Like people were going to start asking for your autograph…

— Lucy Mihajlich

“From July of his sophomore year in college until the following January, all Tsukuru Tazaki could think about was dying. He turned…

— Anonymous

“If you want to be reborn,' it is written in the Tao Te Ching, 'let yourself die.' This is what I've been…

— Katrina Kenison

Never underestimate a girls love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she wont defend them to her…

— Alex Gaskarth

“In the end, the world and its civilization had not been destroyed by the purging flames of Heaven; instead it rotted away…

— Sakyo Komatsu

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“I experienced a form of grief so intense and pure I thought it would kill me.”

— William Boyd

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a…

— Andrew W.K

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

— Epicurus

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

— Charles Baudelaire

No words can express the sympathy Im feeling for you & your family for the loss youre dealing with.

— Anonymous

“She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death.”

— Tanith Lee

We love our dear ones deeply and miss them when they leave us. But we know that the bond of love is…

— Harold Klemp

“Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark; leave a positive legacy!”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“...the antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.”

— A.J. Hartley and David Hewson

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

— Georges Bataille

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

— Katherine Mansfield

“Worthy or not, you will receive your destiny. Awake or not you will notice.”

— Julieanne O'Connor

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

— Thomas Browne

Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field…

— Wayne Dyer

“I want a boring year, one where I don’t have to worry about life and death. Ally”

— Laura A.H. Elliott

“Four inches The difference between life and death for you tonight was four inches.”

— Tiffany Snow

“Who said, 'All Time's delight Hath she for narrow bed; Life's troubled bubble broken'? --- That's what I said.”

— Walter de la Mare

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

— Ellis Peters

“I never again looked at the sky and saw only vastness and beauty. From that afternoon on I saw that death was…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.”

— James Clavell

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned…

— Kofi Annan

“Glu de l'étang lait de ma mort noyée [Glue of the pool milk of my death drowned]”

— Anonymous

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

— Hesiod

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

— Frederick Lenz