Top 999 Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Death is a fearful thing.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
To have died once is enough.
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Give me liberty or give me death.
I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don't ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
