Quotes About Death

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.