Death Quotes
100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.
100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.
Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. B...
Show MoreWhen I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a ...
Show MoreWe are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th...
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We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, a...
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I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and y...
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Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And w...
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There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life h...
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Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing o...
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It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk whe...
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Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?His throat moved. Such...
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Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

He thought about that visionary lady. To die, he thought, never knowing the fierce joy and attendant...
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In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worshi...
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Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t...
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Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rat...
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…Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, ...
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If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contente...
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Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well...
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the ...
Show MoreYou can't make me do nothing but die!

Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the w...
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Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the cr...
Show MoreThe worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this m...
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Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death...
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
The only cure for a real hangover is death.
If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.
Let the tent be struck.
There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Part of a moon was falling down the west,Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.Its light poure...
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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mi...
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A man without trust might as well be dead.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you in...
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Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you ...
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I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and ma...
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, an...
Show MoreDeath, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere nei...
Show MoreTo look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and h...
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Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

REQUIEMUnder the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie:Glad did I live and gladly die,And ...
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The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and...
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His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The c...
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Planned obsolescence isn't a new idea - God always used it with people.
For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.
He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the grou...
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it s...
Show MoreEl silencio de la muerte es el peor de los silencios, porque el silencio rulfiano es un silencio ace...
Show MoreAll names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach ...
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No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the pol...
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While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the...
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The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those w...
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I am dying now, but I still have many things to say.

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of tim...
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Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.
I've changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore,Except in a ...
Show MoreAs long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continu...
Show MoreMy attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get ...
Show MoreI know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he nea...
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Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it w...
Show MoreEach of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without some...
Show MoreAs soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania...
Show MoreBy the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is s...
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The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain ...
Show MoreMy mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy...
Show MoreI've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better ...
Show Morelove is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives prote...
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After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's Go...
Show MoreAmy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in...
Show MoreInterestingly, one mate of mine, a proper leftie, in his heyday all Red Wedge and right-on punch-ups...
Show MoreI'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I se...
Show MoreSomewhere Dōgen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I don’t remember the exac...
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. W...
Show MoreHe had been reborn into the knowledge of death; and the inescapability of change, of things-never-th...
Show MoreOur lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's descr...
Show MoreDeath and life were just adjacent verandas.

This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable sp...
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Study history, Alleluia. In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological o...
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He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers betwe...
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In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I ...
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My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worship...
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.
The only sin is the sin of being born
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
Show MoreThe end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

Ah earth you old extinguisher.

Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of d...
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I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.

And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.
