Quotes About Death

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

I would fain die a dry death.

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.