Quotes About Death

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

You think this necklace is a tailsman?" "Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Stephen King, Pet Sematary

O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

The lucky ones are just born dead.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

And I met Madeline's necromancer. His name's Luca." "A death detector?" Tod made a face. "That's creepy." "It gets weirder. He's dating Sophie." "On purpose?

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.