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Quotes About Death

While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality.
~ Unknown
If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams.
~ Philip Nitschke
You smell so good, ""No, I don't, I smell like death.""You're crazy, you're not dead. You do not smell like death.""I was dead a long time.""And now you're not. Hence the alive smell.
~ Unknown
Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.
~ Unknown
Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.
~ Unknown
I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.
~ Unknown
Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die
~ Tom Schulman
Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
~ Roland Barthes
The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.
~ Santosh Kalwar
We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.
~ Gaston Leroux
The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine's mouth. "Death, " hewhispered to her, "should be a quiet thing.
~ Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life.
~ Unknown
She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...
~ Alice Munro
If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls
~ Mervyn Peake, Collected Poems
The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.
~ Marty Rubin
The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.
~ Kevin Dalton
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cine n-ar dori s? moar? visând c? moare?
~ Unknown
If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.
~ Jean de la Bruyere