Quotes About Death

Front had caused millions of deaths without any real victories. The capture of Jerusalem

Do you want our spirits to hobble out of their graves Enduring twinges of hopeless human affection As long as death shall last? Still to suffer Pain in the amputated limb! To feel Passion in vacuo! That is the sort of thing That causes sun-spots, and the lord knows what Infirmities in the firmament.

I defend myself against pain and death by pain And death,

The bodhi tree has been converted into a marriage tree. The belief is that young women who die before marriage should have a husband in the next world. Their relatives bring a wedding dress and monks to this tree and perform a wedding ceremony. The spirit of the dead woman is married to a famous singer, poet or magician who died many years ago. Their families believe that he'll be a good husband will look after each wife as if she were the only one.

Feudalism, that discreet system of gentlemen gangsters and serfs, had never died out in the region, and was concealed in the trappings of modern buildings and streets. Only a lunatic would quarrel with his master; only a fool would not understand that he stood in the steel jaws of death his entire life.

They who would isolate themselves from the world and its duties must cease to know and to care, as well as to act, and be content to let things take their course. This in effect they cannot do; this they never do; and the only result is a struggle in which they neither live nor die — neither live as they wish, in the past, nor do their duty in the working world.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

These people," she said. "These people who die and you never knew them. What are you supposed to feel?" She really wanted me to tell her. She really thought that I would know. "Nothing," I said, tossing the key on her bed. "You're not supposed to feel anything.

Älä viivy muistoissasi tänne tullaan suutelemaan, vielä kerran huutamaan kuin armaat, kunnioituksesta pimeyttä kohden kuolemaa

The pure beauty of death is impossible to describe as the birth of a child, the betrayal of a lover, the moment of orgasm

Probably the best way to kill aesthetes is with valuable objets d'art so that in death they can still get mad over an act of vandalism.

Every death is a murder, every death in war is a murder for which someone is responsible.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love.

But I've been reading A Very Easy Death, about Simone de Beauvoir's mother dying of cancer – it's just brilliant. It really helped me.' She

These dead were in some regards the antithesis of the Republican disappeared in that their deaths were, from the start, supercharged with state symbolism and the disinterred bodies of many of them (such as those at Paracuellos, but there are many other examples) were made highly visible in the 1940s as part of a ceremonial process of state "sanctification".

There should be no fear of death, for the death of the body is but a gentle passing to a much freer life

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to.

Hunting makes you animal, but the death of an animal makes you human.

The hawk is on my fist. Thirty ounces of death in a feathered jacket; a being whose world is drawn in plots and vectors that pull her towards lives' ends.