Quotes About Death

He rounded corners one by one, each time by himself. He didn't think about bravery till long afterwards; at the time, the only thing in his mind was the luckless lieutenant's empty shoes. If he did touch off a torpedo, he'd never know what hit him. Oddly, that helped steady him. He'd seen too many worse ways of dying.

He said, "You misunderstand. We did not kill the nuggies and the other folk hereabouts. They see us, and then they commonly die." "Of what?" I asked. "Of embarrassment.

And why do I often meet your visage here,Your eyes like agate lanterns—on and onBelow the toothpaste and the dandruff ads?And did their riding eyes right through your side,And did their eyes like unwashed platters ride?And Death, aloft—gigantically downProbing through you—toward me, O evermore!

The swift red flesh, a winter king—Who squired the glacier woman down the sky?She ran the neighing canyons all the spring;She spouted arms; she rose with maize—to die.

Modern scientists attribute to such systems an "irre d u c i b l e complexity." In the same way that a motor will not work if one of its cogs is missing, in plants the absence of just one system, or a single functional failure in any one of the parts of the system, will lead to the death of the plant.

At first, she bucked like a wild stag beneath me, and she tried to scream, but the pillow did a good job of muffling her voice.  Before long, the bucking stopped, and my wife's corpse, blue without oxygen, appeared below me like a hideous phantom.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Intend to be Love And know death for what it is: The inbreath of God.

Give me an incubator or give me death!

Movement is life; stillness is death.

The self is inflated, Then deflated, In a lemming rhythm of auto-destruction. Half a million auto-fatalities per annum. The fast-food-junk-death-road-show.

Live and everyone would die. Die and everyone would live. It seemed like such a simple choice. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

the greatest agony on earth didn't lie in the pain of living or the pain of death, but in the pain of separation that haunted the heart and soul?

Sir, you are gainfully employed and a good man who appreciates we are a great human family." "Most certainly, sir," Mark promised. "Alas, many of us foolishly learned the hard way, but you see, once death claims us, a human soul has no color. We are one, and alive and dead, we are beautiful in all that we are.

he didn't believe much in funerals—or in massive monuments to the dead, caskets worth thousands and thousands of dollars or any other such thing.

The dead bodies I saw all stayed that way. (...) Death is usually ugly, but always complete.

The foetus, expert at attachment, didn't dream that cramped canal would open into sound and light and love - it clung. It didn't care. The future looked like death to it, from there.

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!

Before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, and fall into a sleep like death! —Maleficent

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. —Albus Dumbledore

Six years and my parents are still dead, and I still feel like I'm rotting away in purgatory, waiting for a killer to determine my fate.

Laurie Faria Stolarz

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.