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Quotes About Death

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.
~ Anne Rice
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
~ Robert Southey
Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
~ Anais Nin
I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.
~ Ann Coulter
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!
~ Ouida
He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.
~ Tina St. John
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
~ Billy Corgan
I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.
~ Cassandra Clare
You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.
~ Charles A. Reich
There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.
~ Charles Bukowski
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.
~ Charles Dickens
Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.
~ Russell Hoban
Each age has its choice of the death it will die.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
It seems there are no rich on death row.
~ Charles Grodin
Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.
~ Charles Simmons
She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
~ Tess Gerritsen
With death comes a choice. And death is a choice.
~ Cass McCombs
I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death.
~ Simon Schama
The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.
~ Christopher Bollen
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
~ Walter Savage Landor
I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .
~ Courtney Summers