Quotes About Death

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn --or answer the call of Death's dark horn. Without a gleaning of purpose in life, we have no vision, we live in strife, --or let blood fall on a suicide knife.

Death was driving an emerald-green Lexus.

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing...Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia.

We spend nine months in a nurturing darkness before we're born, and we aspire to the highest of all places when we die.

Freud would have had a grand time analyzing my have-to-die-clean complex. But then Freud was an ass.

It was a terrible thing when death first entered the world, and even now when it's the way of nature, it's terrible beyond words. Whether it comes for your mother by her own hands or for a stranger who can say nothing in defense of himself except that his watch is solid gold, standing witness to death leaves you desolate - Addison Goldheart pg. 116

Maybe if the death had occurred on the other side of the street, I'd be watching from here with different kids, acting as foolish. Maybe the difference between horror and holiday was just the width of an ordinary street.

And so we went to the Panamint, where Death had gone to gamble and had, as always, won.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and deeply affecting that the heart is nearly stilled by astonishment.

We are born with the dead: See, they return and bring us with them." —T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

Don't mourn the death of monsters, dear. Celebrate the saving of the innocents.

love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.

The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.

Oleander will kill you quickly. Azaleas, ingested, take a few hours. Vomiting, paralysis, seizures, coma, death. Then there's savin, henbane, foxglove, jimsonweed...all here in Pico Mundo. And we call her Mother Nature. There's nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either, Ozzie said.

He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and as a failure.

our Janice is gone, but you're still here, and your first allegiance should never be to the dead.

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on. When

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Death was everywhere, he was legion, and you couldn't escape his attention, but in some places he manifested in greater numbers than in others.

Death is part of life. If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because

More likely, they would just cease to exist. That's death. No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.