Quotes About Death

The combination of his traveling position, his drug intake, and his already weakened heart probably killed him.

The official cause of death was listed as heart failure, aggravated by acute alcoholism.

Within ten weeks of his death, Hank had as many albums on the market as he did all the years he lived; hundreds more would follow. The oil well that Hank Williams became in death was starting to gush

Death is a good career move if it can be timed right, and no one ever timed it better than Hank Williams

Audrey was the first of many who found Hank more lovable dead.

His fellow monks carried him back to his cell and laid him on the hard cot that had been his bed for the last twenty years. He was an old man now and there was nothing to be done. His eyes had the cold sheen of death. A brother went to fetch the abbot so that the old fellow might make his last confession.

The dead man looked disconsolate. Reasonably so, in the circumstances, Charlie thought.

I was twenty-nine years old when I died. Died; I use the term loosely. I was murdered, but within the dictates of the law and with the full approval of the king, even though he was barely eighteen years at the time.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Mortality rates among the crews of vessels employed in the African slave trade were comparable to those of the slaves themselves. It was not unusual for 40 percent of the crew to perish during a single voyage, most from tropical diseases against which they had no resistance. About half the sailors pressed into the Royal Navy died at sea.

He kicked each of his shoes over the wall and into the crowd, adding, "that some friends of his had often said he should die in his shoes, but that he would make them liars.

ME's bound to rule your sister's death a suicide, Ms. Miller. I know how hard it is to accept—" Anger roaring in her ears, Lauren slapped her palms hard against the cushions as she pushed herself to her feet. "You're with the FBI, right? So why are you even here, if all you're going to do is feed me the cops' regurgitated bullshit?" "I was called

Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colored advancement than the most high-minded abolitionist. In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man's equal.

She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.

Death is in the hands of destiny and how cruel, yet Divine, it be.

Divine, if I am soon to die, please just let it be, that I complete my mission first.

Do not fear death, for it is merely our transcendence to true divinity.

Jesse has to die in order for him to be immortalised as the young effigy that he is.

The day of my death will not be the day of his.

Tough girl I'm almost single, my husband's on death row.

I do not accept evil. Man is perfect. The soul does not fall. Progress exists. . . . Up till now, misfortune has been described in order to inspire terror and pity. I will describe happiness in order to inspire their contraries. . . . As long as my friends do not die, I will not speak of death.

Les cygnes chantent avant de mourir. Certaines personnes feraient bien de mourir avant de chanter.

It is not easy to bring about the death of the entire race of men, and the law is there; but one may, with patience, exterminate the human ants one by one.

Till you have learned to serve men, how can you serve ghosts? Till you know about the living, how are you to know about the dead?