Quotes About Death

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. What's it about? Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?

Lies Bücher. So einfach ist das. Ein Buch ist die einzige wirkliche Flucht aus dieser gefallenen Welt. Außer dem Tod.

Ötszáz, bizony, dalolva ment Lángsírba velszi bárd: De egy se birta mondani Hogy: éljen Eduárd.

Tem mais um defunto morto aqui!

When I die, I can't serve you. When I'm in the grave, how can I praise your goodness?

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. -John Taylor

Fire had once provided safety to those who stood within its sphere, warding off tigers, leopards, and bears. Now that light from the burning vehicle was the death knell for those it illuminated.

Interrupted by blood, bile, and sticky white slivers of bone and brain were the words Pamwe Chete; the gift from Rich Hastings had taken another soul.

Alone on Christmas Eve in Japan" Not wanting to lose it all for poetry. Wanting to live the living. All this year looking on the graveyard below my apartment. Holding myself tenderly in this marred body. Wondering if the quiet I feel is that happiness wise people speak of, or the modulation that is the acquiescence to death beginning.

In another experiment in 1955, the CIA released the whooping cough virus over Tampa, Florida without telling anyone, so they could see how quickly it would spread; they got their data, and twelve innocent civilians died.

Not me, girl dear, not me in the whole wide world. You need a man…I'm just a corpse walking.

The dead are home before us, daddy, she said. But we have work to do.

I'm not going to tell you about this. I refuse to. There are things you know you'll die before telling, things you know you should have died before ever having seen. I watched and saw.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

It is only life that has meaning, not death,

If you don't lose that fear of death, then you can never appreciate life or take the chances life gives you.

A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die…. Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.

Doesn't matter, does it?" said George. "They're just as dead. Their blood is on your hands." "They don't have blood." "Humans are only literal when they're ashamed of something.