Quotes About Death

But maybe I am wrong, how death is simply death, each slightly different from the next but the final strike all the same. How the skin responds to a wedding dress in the same way it responds to rain.

This is the worst day of my life'. I groaned and put my head in my hands. 'You can't possibly know that. You might have something really awful going to happen to you later on. All your children burned to death or your nose cut off in a revolving door'.

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he murmured, and I recognized the line spoken by Romeo in the tomb.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

Death smells like birthday cake.

Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn't.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.

Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.