Quotes About Death

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end.

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

Routine is the death to heroism.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.