Death Quotes

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. Im telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God, and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

Thoughts of his own death, like the distant roll of thunder at a picnic.

In order to avoid her death, her particular death, with wrung neck and swollen tongue, she must marry the hangman.

His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Personally I wish the police had truncheoned the English fans to death, but I cant really say that on the record.
Tony Banks

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds.

The Afghans have stood firm in the face of all odds and pressures and have indeed made the greatest of sacrifices. They have sacrificed a million and a half people. They are no longer afraid of death. The truth is that when death seems far away then fear of it is magnified, but this fear disappears for those who see it close to them.For the Afghans, death is no longer something to be avoided![
Israr Ahmed

It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed.

I'm still young enough to think that death is something that happens to other people.

The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.

I know death comes. Ive seen too much death, young death.

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

I have just come back from the internment camps of Europe where I looked on the survivors of the Nazi charnel houses. I was in Dachau and Belsen. I saw chambers where hundreds of Jews were throttled every day. They were brought naked, as if to bathe, and the Nazis would peer through peepholes and watch them writhing in their death agonies.

In death too, there is always something of the rich cat that lets the mouse run before devouring it
Ernst Simon Bloch

It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

When they give ya they shoulders, never cry on em. And when they love you to death, just never die on em.

If they love you to death, never die on them.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.







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