Quotes About Death

Que la muerte sea tu única compañera.

Have you ever heard this one? When you drive past a cemetery, you have to hold your breath. If you don't, the spirits of the newly dead can get in your body through your mouth and then they can possess you.

Why should death discriminate between age and youth, you mean?" he asked calmly. "Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus.

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.

Then dark death seized Argus, as soon as he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

Sleep, the brother of Death.

Then the father held out the golden scales, and in them he placed two fates of dread death.

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown

No vivimos nosotros también de muertos? Pues ¿qué son las herencias?

Only, the working-man dies in hospital when the last term of his stunted growth expires; whereas the man of the middle class is set upon living, and lives on, but in a state of idiocy. You

I left, stifling my generous impulse, for I have often observed that while a charitable act may do no harm to the benefactor, it is death to the one who receives it.

Old Claparon is dead, and his son, who has become a banker, has ordered the cheapest kind of funeral for him. That fellow has no education; they wouldn't behave like that in China.

James 1:14, 15: "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.