Quotes About Death

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It's living well that I couldn't do. What's death compared to that.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.