Quotes About Death

Not all men are annoying. Some are dead.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Happiness is being hopeful in life and not being scared of death. True happiness in not something you can design.

You can die from being scared, so can you die from being nervous/anxious?

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die and, then it's too late.

I don't want to die, but I'm also not afraid to die.

War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.

Advice after injury is like medicine after death

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

For a single moment I want to feel like the universe isn't about to crush me and the heart isn't about to explode. I want to feel like I'm not about to die.

Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age?

We should have such joy that even at the time of death we can declare with a happy smile: That was wonderful!

Did it really happen as the legend said? Did they in truth dance here? Were they struck down in their defiance and turned to stone, to stand on this spot as the centuries passed? How fortunate they were! Sudden death was preferable to a lingering one. I thought of the seventh – the one who had been dragged to the hollow wall, the one who was shut in to die; and I was filled with a momentary melancholy.

Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.

We must be vigilant, even of each other, but mostly of ourselves. What my time in the cave taught me is that the ultimate life-and-death struggle is with ourselves. Foreign invaders might kill my body, but only I could kill my spirit.

Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death.

One did not depend on marines for good table manners. One depended on them to have the right instincts when it came to matters of life and death.

Every paranoid person is right at least once, said the tall sergeant. When he dies.

I feared death and I loved life. I yearned to live long enough to smoke one more cigarette, drink one more drink, experience seven more seconds of obscene bliss, and then, perhaps, but most likely not, I could die.

Those are excellent odds, as the chances of one ultimately dying are one hundred percent.

Let's see, he had told me one night at our hotel's bar, I've been beaten to death with brass knuckles by Robert Mitchum, knifed in the back by Ernest Borgnine, shot in the head by Frank Sinatra, strangled by James Coburn,

All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead. To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.

Death would only hurt for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.