Death Quotes

You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you li...

This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I ...

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave ...

You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nichol...

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to ...

Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Alli...

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief....And supposedly 95% of Americans say they believe in...

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

Why do you live?Because I have something worth living for.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

Would he ever have the strength to stop looking?

Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.

Snape looked horrified. 'You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?''Don't look...

You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

The long game was ended, the Snitch has been caught, it was time to leave the air....

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped ...

He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about wa...

You'll stay with me? Until the very end, said James. They won't be able to see you? asked Harry. We ...

Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not a...

Harry Potter," he said very softly. His voice might have been part of the spitting fire. "The Boy Wh...

Harry lost any sense of where they were: Streetlights above him, yells around him, he was clinging t...

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had neve...

But you're dead," said Harry."Oh yes," said Dumbledore matter-of-factly."Then...I'm dead too?""Ah," ...

The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like sof...

Would it hurt to die?

No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was k...

As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies l...

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

And Death spoke to them —’”“Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?”“It’s a fairy tale,...

the world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased

Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people," said Ron...

His heart was leaping against his ribs like a frantic bird. Perhaps it knew it had little time left,...

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a ...

But you're dead,' said Harry.'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.'Then... am I dead too?''Ah...

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...

Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no...

Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t rea...

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

Ginny, listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't ...

And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte...

But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quite softly.“Severus . . .”The sound frightened Harry be...

Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that ho...

Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us -" screeched the woman, but at that precise moment the doo...

Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.

But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quite softly.“Severus . . .”The sound frightened Harry be...

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kep...

There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now found themselves the unwi...

And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screa...

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I...

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protect...

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as...

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical websi...

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated im...

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things ref...

In a while the organism will repair itself, and I, the ghost within it, will be my old self again. B...

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.”“I’m going to e...

Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There mu...

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st...

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go th...

But the sons of Men die indeed, and leave the world; wherefore they are called the Guests or the Str...

Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass growsThe West Wind goes walking, and about the...

The ‘Elves’ are ‘immortal’, at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with ...

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The gr...

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability ...

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who...

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield...

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear rene...

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising ver...

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first tim...

Indeed the mind of Ilúvatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all th...

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not onl...

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away...

They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past...

You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourse...

Love is bitter, death is sweet.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibi...

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when...

He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct...

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to...

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

This way of behaving, this way of feeling, so hysterical, so sad, when someone has died, I don't lik...

I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world sta...

I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you as...

...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the h...

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized...

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest f...

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, tu...

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage...