Quotes About Death

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

Death laid its eggs in the wound

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking.

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

Renunciation means death of false ego.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.

Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead.

Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.