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Death Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was…
- He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the…
- What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of…
- And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like…
- Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it…
- He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.
- When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the…
- I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in…
- In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless…
- In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals…
- Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like…
- How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden