Quotes About Death

Imagining yourself dead is the cheapest, sleaziest, most satisfying form of childish self-pity. How sad and remorseful and guilty all those people are, standing by your great bronze coffin.

Where were you when James Dean died?" he said in a threatening voice.

What did I read just the other day? there are more people dead today than in the rest of world history put together. What's one extra? I'd just as soon die while I'm trying to put Orest Mercator's name in the record book.' I looked at my son. I said, 'Is he trying to tell us there are more people dying in this twenty0four hour period than in the rest of human history up to now?

What did I read just the other day? there are more people dead today than in the rest of world history put together. What's one extra? I'd just as soon die while I'm trying to put Orest Mercator's name in the record book.' I looked at my son. I said, 'Is he trying to tell us there are more people dying in this twenty-four hour period than in the rest of human history up to now?

That's my argument exactly. Fangs. Snakebite. Fifty thousand people a year die of snakebite. it was on television last night.' 'Everything was on television last night.,' Orest said.

No weakening of the spirit. No sense of the irony of human existence, that we are the highest form of life on earth and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

So you're saying, Jack, that death would be just as threatening even if you'd accomplished all you'd ever hoped to accomplish in your life and work.' 'Are you crazy? Of course. That's an elitist idea. Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries hw would like to bag?' 'Well said.' 'This is death. I don't want it to tarry awhile to I can write a monograph. I want it to go way for seventy or eighty years.

Baba, I am the one in this family who is obsessed by death. I have always been the one.

But there are different kinds of death, David. And I prefer that kind, his kind, to the death I've been fighting all my life.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

How much pleasure did you take as a kid," Lasher said, "in imagining yourself dead?

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers' plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children's games. We edge nearer to death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot.

Crowds came to form a shield against their own dying. To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual, to face dying alone. Crowds came for this reason above all others. They were there to be a crowd.

Nada existía a su alrededor. Solo el sonido dentro de su cabeza, la mente suspensa en el tiempo. Cuando muriese, no seria su fin. Seria el fin del mundo.

I think it's a mistake to lose one's sense of death, even one's fear of death. Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit." I

That's my argument exactly. Fangs. Snakebite. Fifty thousand people a year die of snakebite. It was on television last night." "Everything was on television last night," Orest said. I admired the reply.

Sometimes I think our love is inexperienced. The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

Right. We all fear death to some extent. Those who claim otherwise are lying to themselves. Shallow people." "People with their nicknames on their license plates.

From beyond the grave, dead living legend John Wayne will communicate telepathically with President Reagan to help frame U.S. foreign policy. Mellowed by death, the strapping actor will advocate a hopeful policy or peace and love.

Death adapts, like a viral agent. Is it a law of nature? Or some private superstition of mine?

This must be how people escape the pull of the earth, the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying.

Wyobra? sobie ?ycie bez l?ku przed podejmowaniem ryzyka i poznawaniem ?wiata. Nie boisz si? czegokolwiek straci?. Nie boisz si? ?y? i nie boisz si? umrze?.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive-- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Queremos que el Padre Muerto esté muerto. Nos sentamos con los ojos llenos de lágrimas y deseamos que el Padre Muerto esté muerto… y entretanto hacemos cosas asombrosas con las manos.