Death Quotes · Page 558

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

— Emily V. Gordon

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

— Lorna Luft

“In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead…

— Michael Cart

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak…

— Samuel Richardson

“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.”

— Joseph Conrad

In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream…

— William J. Clinton

“The enemy stopped shooting, and that strict, menacing, inaccessible, and elusive line that separates two enemy armies became all the more clearly…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I’m an old-fashioned man, my mistress, but even in my human life I thought the entire idea of death before dishonor was…

— Lexi Blake

“runaways barefoot wandered the pocket universe stone-paved, dyeing the path red, they were to freeze to death; lucky to have thorns in…

— Remy Alberi

I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you…

— Tommy Caldwell

“Christopher couldn't recall what day it was; he certainly didn't know what hour it was. It was a gray day, but there…

— R.A. Lafferty

“I mourned, hands clenched, before that mound. For the piercing cold of grief had caught Me in the doleful dread and bound…

— Anonymous

...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the…

— Eoin Colfer

“They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals,…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts”

— Kai McCarthy

“when i open eyes in the morning, it's just like GOD Sprinkle salt on my wounds”

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We all live under the same sky, We all will live, We all will die, There is no wrong, There is no…

— Travis

“For example, as you’re reading this paragraph, our whales and dolphins are still dying painful lingering deaths.”

— Steve Irwin

You've got a born date and you've got a death date. In between that time, how are you going to make the…

— DeSean Jackson

We'll say goodbye today and I'm sorry how it ends this way if you promise not to cry han ill tell you…

— Mcr

“Coroners made Al Garcia jumpy; they always got so cheery when somebody came up with a fresh way to die.”

— Carl Hiaasen

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

— Tony Dungy

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Everything I have, my very life itself, is yours. That always has and always will extend beyond death for me.”

— Melissa L. Webb

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully.”

— Orson Scott Card

“It generated horrific noises that sound like a TRex trapped in a tar pit screeching its dying screams.”

— Thomas Friedman

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

— Robert Harris

Death is life's way of saying,You're fired. Suicide is your way of saying,I quit.

— Anonymous

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

— Oliver Sykes

“But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.”

— Tom Robbins

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

— Bible

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

— John Donne

“John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!' Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.”

— Christopher Pike

“When we die we mourn the loss of such a magnificent sensation that is orgasm.”

— Steven Cooper

“I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought. I want money. Unless I have it… In my…

— Osamu Dazai