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Quotes About Death

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
~ Jerry Saltz
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
~ Horace
You get angry - death does that.
~ Annabella Sciorra
He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.
~ Scott Adams
That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.
~ Annie Fellows Johnston
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.
~ Dylan Thomas
There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain
~ Sarah Palin
Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.
~ James Joyce
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.
~ Ann Aguirre
Inertia is the death of creativity
~ Austin Kleon
Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The day I went into physics class it was death.
~ Sylvia Plath
Quizá lo hayas olvidado, pero ni siquiera en Nuremberg sentenciaron a todo el mundo a morir.
~ Philip Roth
Su madre? Dónde, señor?" "Muerto." "Hoy?" "Sí. This morning. Questo auroro. Aurora?" Italian again. Italy again, the Via Veneto, the peaches, the girls!
~ Philip Roth
but because no evidence had ever been offered Sabbath to persuade him that the dead were anything other than dead. To talk to them, admittedly, was to indulge in the most defensible of irrational human activities
~ Philip Roth
Nobody beloved gets out alive.
~ Philip Roth
if there weren't war, lunacy, perversity, sickness, imbecility, suicide, and death, chances were he'd be in a lot better shape.
~ Philip Roth
My right mind is just another name for my fears! My right mind is simply that inheritance of terror that I bring with me out of my ridiculous past! That tyrant, my superego, he should be strung up, that son of a bitch, hung by his fucking storm-trooper's boots till he's dead!
~ Philip Roth
Franklin Delano Roosevelt commends "the reading of the Bible" to my brother. The way they got these kids to die. Commends.
~ Philip Roth
Il coula sans venir voir le coup, sans jamais pressentir l'issue, avide au contraire de s'assouvir encore, mais il ne se réveilla pas. Arrêt cardiaque. Il n'était plus. Affranchi de l'être, entré dans le nulle part, sans même en avoir conscience. Comme il le craignait depuis le début.
~ Philip Roth
I don't think you ever gave isolation a real shot. It's the best preparation I know of for death.
~ Philip Roth
sostuvieron a base de falsas esperanzas y al final nos enviaron a la muerte por vía férrea.
~ Philip Roth
A phone at a cemetery would be ringing off the hook. If you could get them on the phone . .
~ Philip Roth