Quotes About Death

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

Despair is infidelity and death.

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.