Quotes About Death

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.