Like Death Quotes

74 Like Death quotes by 59 unique authors

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of. — Rachel Cusk
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact… — Rachel Cusk
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. — Edna Ferber
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. — Christopher Hitchens
When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and… — John Hodgman
There is something about poverty that smells like death. — Zora Neale Hurston
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. — Herman Melville
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. — Dennis Quaid
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. — Kevin Spacey
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. — Rufus Wainwright
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex… — Florence Welch
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death… — Unknown Author
All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. — Michael Crichton
Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death. — Garth Nix
And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster. — Richelle Mead
In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He… — William Faulkner
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything. — Milan Kundera
And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. — Hermann Hesse
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison,… — Charles Dickens
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.… — Theodore Roethke
You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death! — Emily Bronte
The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A… — Sylvia Plath
Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but… — Jacob Grimm
I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned. — Stephenie Meyer

Who Wrote These Like Death Quotes

59 authors contributed a total of 74 Like Death Quotes, led by these top contributors: