Quotes About Death

The recompense for having suffered so is that then one dies like a dog.

For everyone death has a look. Death will come with your eyes. It will be like terminating a vice, as seen in the mirror a dead face re-emerging, like listening to closed lips. We'll go down the abyss in silence. — Cesar Pavese, from "Death Will Come With Your Eyes," Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi . Translation by Linh Dinh (Einaudi 1966) Originally published 1951.

Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos

Chi ha la pagnotta non si muove. La guerra non doveva finire se non dopo aver distrutto ogni ricordo e ogni speranza. Soltanto per i morti, la guerra è finita davvero.

Le catene, la morte, la comune speranza, acquistavano un senso terribile e quotidiano. Ciò che prima era visto nell'aria, era stato parole, adesso afferrava alle viscere. Nelle parole c'è qualcosa d'impudico. In certi istanti avrei voluto vergognarmi. Invece tacevo. Avrei voluto scomparire come un topo. Le bestie, pensavo, non sanno quel che avviene. Invidiavo le bestie.

Es aterrador amar lo que la muerte tiene a su alcance.

sekali berarti sesudah itu mati

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?

Ours was a typical grief, and yet I say it without believing it. When death becomes personal, then there is nothing typical about it.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

I make war on the living, not on the dead.

who feared God, but not death … who thought none below him but the base and unjust, none above him but the wise and virtuous'.

Every moment dies a man, Every moment 1 1/16 is born.

O Death, old captain, it is time! raise the anchor!

You can not figure out love without figuring out death, too, but the effort it takes can knock the wind out of you. Love is the first cousin of death, they're acquainted with each other, they go to the same family reunions.

was odd that the French were so dignified in death but in life acted like shits squealing on each other.

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

fan. You know, Jimmy's got records stashed away in case something unnatural happens to him." "Your friend made one threat too many in his life," Russell shrugged. "I'm only saying the nuclear fallout's going to hit the fan when they find his body." "There won't be a body.

Yank was a good man who lived a good life. He never did anything wrong. He died before his time, while I was still in jail. They wouldn't let me come home on a pass for his funeral. Not even for my brother's or sister's funerals. Yank managed O'Malley's Restaurant on the West Chester Pike, and he wrote me in jail that he was going to throw a great big welcome home party for me when I got out, but poor Yank got a heart attack and it killed him.)

Thinking about what my brother said to me on the dock in Le Havre makes me wonder if he was looking into my soul. I knew something was different about me. I didn't care anymore about things. I had been through practically the whole war; what could anybody do to me? Somewhere overseas I had tightened up inside, and I never loosened up again. You get used to death. You get used to killing. Sure, you go out and have fun, but even that has an edge.

Dost thou wish me to complete the catalogue by thy death? Thy life is a worthless thing. Tempt me no more. I am but a man, and thy presence may awaken a fury which may spurn my control. Begone!

Death was a sweet relief for my present miseries, and I vehemently longed for its arrival.

Then will I lay down my head in the lap of death. Hushed will be all my murmurs in the sleep of the grave.

I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear for ever from the face of the earth. Whatever be the links that hold us to life, they must be broken. This scene of existence is, in all its parts, calamitous. The greater number is oppressed with immediate evils, and those, the tide of whose fortunes is full, how small is their portion of enjoyment, since they know that it will terminate.