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Quotes About Death

If he could sleep, she thought, sleep through the unhappy months, the heart's hunger, the months of death and cold and not having what you most want, and wake with time gone past and blurred and a new year coming. But perhaps it is too early in the year, she thought after that, and besides, he is not a bear.
~ Naomi Mitchison
Worse things have been done than that. Yes, much worse. Yet perhaps the death of the very innocent always carries a curse.
~ Naomi Mitchison
But it was all the same choice, every time. The choice between the one death and all the little ones.
~ Naomi Novik
I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.
~ Naomi Novik
the philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124
~ Naomi Oreskes
The Noble Truth of Suffering, dukkha is this: 'Birth is suffering; aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering--in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.' Samyutta Nikaya 56.11.
~ Naomi Ragen
I don't think you're supposed to speak ill of the dead." "When the dead are spineless bastards who don't take care of their own children, I'll say whatever the fuck I want.
~ Unknown
Death is part of life.
~ Unknown
It requires more courage to suffer than to die
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
~ Natalie Babbitt
dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
~ Natalie Babbitt
But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
~ Natalie Goldberg
and though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Bred for one purpose only, to die in man's sport.
~ Natalie Merchant
I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.
~ Unknown
No amount of wishing will bring back the dead.
~ Unknown
He's more of a Death person than a Dinner Roll person...
~ Unknown