Quotes About Death

living people can sometimes change their situations, while dead ones can't change a fucking thing.

Death is cured! USA! USA! USA! "This is Canada." "Yeah, but you sound stupid chanting 'Ca-na-da!

Moreover, he successively buried three wives;

Yea, verily, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deah, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me. - Walt Longmire

Trinity's witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: It worked.

But sometimes the bravest thing a Hero has to do is not fighting monsters and cheating death and witches. It is facing the consequences of his own actions.

Fred! the nurse said, though they had never met. How are we today? Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of overly familiar discourse. How are you?

Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, "Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of overly familiar discourse. How are you?

Avevamo tutti l'aspetto di cadaveri: perché nulla fa pensare tanto a un morto quanto un uomo vestito da sera in pieno giorno.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

But on this night, for this Volkking's death, when the Death Maiden no longer cried out, and the beating hands had tired, and throats were too raw to howl again, and silence flowed like night out of the low doorway of the Death House, flames erupted --

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an early, colourless, scentless flower that the end of the winter puts forth mercilessly. And she wanted to harbour her modicum of twinkling life.

Incluso la guerra era absurda, aunque con la ventaja de que mataba a no poca gente.

But the passion of gratitude with which he received her into his soul, the extreme, unthinkable gladness of knowing himself living and fit to unite with her, he, who was so nearly dead, who was so near to being gone with the rest of his race down the slope of mechanical death, could never be understood by her.

The moment she entered the room where the man sat alone, waiting intensely, the thrill passed through her, she died in terror, and after the death, a great flame gushed up, obliterating her.

Exactly, I will lay down the law for nobody, not even myself. The thought of death and the afterlife saves me from doing any more. . . . As the thought of Eternity helps me.

you love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

Messina between the volcanoes, Etna and Stromboli, having known the death-agony's terror. I always dread coming near the awful place, yet I have found the people kind, almost feverishly so, as if they knew the awful need for kindness.

To him now, life seemed a shadow, day a white shadow; night, and death, and stillness, and inaction, this seemed like BEING. To be alive, to be urgent and insistent--that was NOT-TO-BE. The highest of all was to melt out into the darkness and sway there, identified with the great Being.

She knew she submitted to life, which was her immediate master. But from her death, her ultimate master, she winced with fear and shame.