Quotes About Death

He had seen so much of life, but even more of death. He had seen countless eras come and go and still he braved forward, forever alone. And here she was ready to give up after a few lousy years. She was a coward.

death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it.

Our mother and father had a club. The Society of Inimitable Livers." "And what did this society do?" she asked breathlessly. "They had banquets on ships and discussed literature with philosophers from around the world." "Then they changed it to the Order of the Inseparable in Death," I added, "when our father lost the Battle of Actium.

We all die. Some of us are fortunate enough to die fighting for justice.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

Until that moment, I've never felt like prey. Never been so intensely watched by a creature who would kill me if it got the chance. I stared at it, and I felt death staring back.

Wij noemen hen Kraaien. Omdat ze zo hebberig zijn en zich voeden met de dood.

Never been so intensely watched by a creature who would kill me if it got the chance. I stared at it, and I felt death staring back. A

Narrander is gestorven... Hij is omgekomen tijdens de grote brand.' 'Een ander is gestorven!' bulderde de Loper.

In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.

He had died in silence as he had lived,' wrote expedition photographer Mario Fantin, 'almost tip-toeing out of life in order not to disturb the people in the tent next to him.'1

I never knew how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.

Control and power go hand in hand and there is no greater power than power over life and death. The moment one has another's life literally in one's hands, one is ultimately powerful, almost godlike. When one is in this position, one is no longer the victim, since someone else has become the victim.

Serial killers experience the power over life and death as omnipotence. Since they have little control over their own lives and feelings, they become addicted to the omnipotence that control over someone else's life gives them. Therefore, they will kill repetitively. It restores the mental imbalance they experience whenever their self-worth is challenged.

Through the deaths of those I loved, I learned to value life and this sensitised me to the suffering of the families of the victims of serial killers. The tragedy of serial homicide is its dichotomy – serial killers kill because they suffer and, by killing, they cause immense suffering.

He said he inspected her vagina and found that she was no longer a virgin, whereupon he strangled her in order to save her from the same kind of life that he had.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive — perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

Porque en ti reconocemos al que proclamo la mas grande de las libertades humanas; la libertad de dudar, y porque moriste entre inmortales, orgulloso de ser mortal...!

El crimen es precioso porque garantiza al gobierno la adhesión del ciudadano. ¿La patria? ¡Sálvese, general, yo sé lo que le digo; qué patria ni qué india envuelta! ¿Las leyes? ¡Buenas son tortas! ¡Sálvese, general, porque le espera la muerte!».