Quotes About Death

body; he had a second batch of recalcitrant friars to be dispatched to Tyburn, to be slit up and gralloched by the hangman. They were traitors and deserved the death, but it is a death exceeding most in cruelty. The pearls around her long neck looked to him

In his family the dead were much discussed. He absorbed the content of these conversations and transmuted them into what passed for memory. This serves the purpose. The dead don't come back, to quibble or correct.

by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!

if you're dead, Peterborough is as good a place as any.

The dead do not come back to complain of their burial. It is the living who are exercised about these matters.

But what's the point? he thinks. She would die and leave me. Or I would die and leave her. It's not worth it. Nobody's worth it.

It was only a year before his girls died of the same cause.

Well, ' he says, 'if you're dead, Peterborough is as good a place as any.

The dead watch us, zealous in old causes.

que el rey les otorgará la merced de muerte por el hacha, que no aumentará su deshonra; aunque entre los jurados se murmura que a Smeaton se le ahorcará porque, al ser hombre de bajo nacimiento, no hay ningún honor que proteger.

Do you think it (hedgehog) can possibly have gone to Heaven?" This was Ruth's ritual question when confronted with death and Naomi was always firm. "No", she said at once. "Because what would it do when it got there? Eat slugs and snails that had gone to hell? It's just died, that's all. No good getting all drippy about it.

He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death" (Rev. 2:11).

a wonderful thing like hazelnuts hidden in chocolate surprises never forgotten secrets never revealed a quest for falling shadows in the voice of angels at dawn lately I wonder about nostalgia candy-framed moments of yesterday shaping times with tender hands I am stories dreamt before birth -- beyond death in a stranger's imagination

Why do you find it easy to kill? These are lives dammit!

you're lucky you can die!!

Had the war really ended thirty years ago? If it had, what had Shimada and Kozuka died for? If what was happening was true, wouldn't it have been better if I had died with them?

Presto o tardi, tutti dobbiamo morire. Quindi non si vive per prolungare la propria esistenza. Si vive per morire in maniera degna.

It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

You don't know how long I've waited to hear those words," he says. "You don't want me dead.

Death's favorites don't die.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

That's what mortal means," I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. "We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.

Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.