Quotes About Death

She stiffened her resolve with a line of Eliot's verse: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

To justify murdering tens of millions, Stalin is reputed to have said, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

T. S. Eliot: LIFE YOU MAY EVADE, BUT DEATH YOU SHALL NOT.

I didn't mind dying—and being reunited with Stormy, whether in Heaven or in the unknown great adventure she calls "service"—but not until the threat to the children had been identified and met.

Lem felt sick, not merely because of what had happened to Wes Dalberg but because of all the deaths yet to come. He was proud of both his management and investigatory skills, and he knew he could handle this case better than anyone else. But he was also a hardheaded pragmatist, incapable of underestimating the enemy or of pretending there would be a quick ending to this nightmare. He would need time and patience and luck to track down the killer, and meanwhile more bodies would pile up.

Although it earned him a living, a suspense writer's imagination made him more aware of the constant proximity of death than were most people. Every dog was a potential rabies carrier. Every strange van passing through the neighborhood was driven by a sexual psychopath who would kidnap and murder any child left unattended for more than three seconds. Every can of soup in the pantry was botulism waiting to happen.

NOT DEAD A chill swept down her back.

THE EARLY SKY WAS CLEAR AND DEEP. THE snow-mantled meadow lay as bright and clean as the morning after death, when time will have defeated time and all will have been redeemed.

Utopias, after all, are sought mostly by great fools, though also by dangerous charlatans, and more death and pain has been brought down on humanity by the pursuit of a perfect world than by all other crime combined.

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realise that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow were all right. We go on

but as the dead

damned might call jealously to the living. Three more shots follow the first three.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Prayer never works. Expect no miracles, Father. The dead stay dead, and the living only wait

Jason Bookman, right hand to Parable founder, Dorian Purcell, and his pilot died today in the crash of a helicopter owned by the company.

beyond that image conjured by Poe's famous story, "The Premature Burial

This was a theory of Kipp's: There are parallel universes, and when we die, we go on living in other realities. Dorothy was lost here, but not lost everywhere.

don't mean to be macabre, but I realized I don't know how Tanner Walsh died.

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

According to the autopsy, his blood-alcohol level was high

Of all the possible dramatic entrances that might then have occurred, none would have been more likely to convince most of those assembled that Death itself had come among them than did the abrupt entrance of Jimmy Two Eyes.

The cause of death was drowning.

There's nowhere on Earth where people haven't died in sorry ways.

Soon, both of the Dawson children would be slaughtered, reduced to nothing more than bloody mounds of dead meat.