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Quotes About Death

Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
~ Carl Sandburg
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.
~ Ferdinand Marcos
I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.
~ Al Davis
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
~ Bruce Sterling
The toughest place to play in the SEC is LSU, Death Valley. The fans there are relentless. They don't stop at all. They keep going.
~ Unknown
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
~ Roland Barthes
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
~ Mario Puzo
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
~ Aleister Crowley
Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.
~ Devin Nunes
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
~ David Gemmell, Fall of Kings
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
~ Mario Puzo
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
~ Iggy Pop
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
~ Brian Jones
White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.
~ Joan Mitchell
Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.
~ Thiruvalluvar
I've always been fascinated by dark subjects, especially people's reactions to them. Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death if everyone dies?
~ Anthony Jeselnik
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
~ Banksy
It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude.
~ Carole Lombard
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
~ Jack Nicholson
I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.
~ Marilyn Manson
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
~ Sigmund Freud
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
~ Ralph Neas