Death Quotes

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not...

We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we di...

A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revere...

What is this life! you cry out. Only silence answers, and it is eloquent. Shining eyes open in the d...

As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habi...

Cases of typhoid take the following course:When the fever is at its height, life calls out to the pa...

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great ma...

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where ...

The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their fa...

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact...

My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down ...

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approv...

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

The dying tapers off now and then, but the War is still killing lots and lots of people. Only right ...

It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someda...

They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative st...

And one cried wee, wee, wee, all the way—" Jessica breaking down in a giggle as he reaches for the s...

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and ...

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back a...

There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life ...

Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[...

I can't look at everything hard enough!

Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone b...

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

The type of the Inevitable is death. I remember well that in my youth I believed that I was certainl...

I have kept thee long in waiting, dear Romuald, and thou mayst well have thought that I had forgotte...

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger ha...

You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive ...

They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. Greased they'd say. Offed, lit up, zap...

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

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

It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death.""Sure and show me the person's...

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of som...

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead...

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clou...

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We m...

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, ...

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?Guildenstern: No,...

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a...

Death stoops over me.I'm a problem in chess. Hehas the solution.

In the middle of life, death comesto take your measurements. The visitis forgotten and life goes on....

It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the h...

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fasc...

Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life ...

My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolut...

Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty...

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you li...

The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does ...

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the ...

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you...

The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground o...

In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's ...

On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terr...

He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death wit...

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they ...

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the univ...

This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than lov...

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the l...

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But on...

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th...

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the ma...

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...

...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, sav...

The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life...

They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal ...

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefo...

I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath th...

The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. Th...

He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capa...

The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the ear...

Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fat...

When a person dies, they cross over from the realm of freedom to the realm of slavery. Life is freed...

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any...

How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time ...

If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse...

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave ...

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with gu...

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her ag...