logo

Quotes About Death

When dog kill puss, and puss kill dog, the only one happy is the john-crow.
~ Marlon James
When I finally die, at the hand of the Duolingon, how many runes will you have to write each night to stop me from coming for you?
~ Marlon James
This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning
~ Marlon James
the dead never stop talking and sometimes the living hear.
~ Marlon James
Listen. Dead people never stop talking. Maybe because death is not death at all, just a detention after school. You know where you're coming from and you're always returning from it. You know where you're going though you never seem to get there and you're just dead. Dead.
~ Marlon James
When dog kill puss, and puss kill dog, the only one happy is the john-crow. And the john-crow been waiting for this all it life. The vulture with him red head and white feather chest and black wings.
~ Marlon James
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
~ Marquis de Sade
What is more immoral than war?
~ Marquis de Sade
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
~ Marquis de Sade
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
~ Unknown
The desire to commit suicide, however, has at its base a belief that life cannot or will not improve. Although that may be the case in some instances, it is not true in all instances. Death, however, rules out hope in all instances. We do not have any data indicating that people who are dead lead better lives.
~ Unknown
When the poet died, they brought his coffin to the city of glass. There was no door: the door was a thousand daggers, beyond the door an ancient world in ruins, glass now arrowheads, axes, pottery shards, dust. There were no windows: fingers of air reached for glass like a missing lover's face.
~ Martín Espada
Now you are dead, your heart throbbing too fast for the doctors at the veterans' hospital to keep the beat, their pill bottles rattling, maracas in a mambo for the doomed.
~ Martín Espada
La morte ha tante facce, è una presenza anche quando non lascia dietro di se un corpo inerte.
~ Unknown
There is no Death with Dignity when people choose to die because health care economics and the social services system prevent life with dignity.
~ Unknown
Meses más tarde Lourdes Ruiz, la Reina del Albur, se murió de un infarto a poco de haber cumplido 47 años.)
~ Unknown
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
~ Martha Beck
Graveyards are needed before churches.
~ Unknown
I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.
~ Martha Gellhorn
What gave these krauts a right to say who should be born and who shouldn't, and who could live and be let alone, and who would get caught and killed?
~ Martha Gellhorn
There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are daily small deaths.
~ Martha Graham
By tricky I meant I was getting an average of an 85 percent chance of failure and death, and it was only that low because my last diagnostic said my risk assessment module was wonky. (I know, that explains a lot about me.)
~ Martha Wells
Target Two's gray face went surprised, then furious. It was kind of funny. This was a point where if I was a human (ick) I might have laughed. I decided to go with my first inclination and kill the shit out of some ass-faced hostiles instead. I told the Targets, "Angry, then afraid, then dead. Is that the right order?
~ Martha Wells
That isn't how this works, expositor." Then he peeled Tarrow's soul from his body and ate his life.
~ Martha Wells