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Quotes About Death

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Name the different kinds of people,' said Miss Lupescu. 'Now.' Bod thought for a moment. 'The living,' he said. 'Er. The dead.' He stopped. Then, '... Cats?' he offered, uncertainly.
~ Neil Gaiman
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.
~ Neil Gaiman
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
~ Neil Gaiman
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
~ Neil Gaiman
Thoreau, "At death, our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us, and are found out, or depart farther from us, and are forgotten.
~ Neil Peart
If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
~ Unknown
Strength, confidence and invincibility had to exude from him at all times. Any vacuum in power could lead to injury, betrayal or death.
~ Unknown
Jim Morrison had star quality and he's dead. Star quality's no good to you when you're dead.
~ Unknown
I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore.
~ Neil Young
When I burn please bury me deep Somewhere on West Division Street Put a bottle beneat' my head 'n a bottle beneat' my feet
~ Nelson Algren
Be absolute for death; for either death or life shall be the sweeter.
~ Nelson Mandela
He nodded for us to rise. I tried to catch his eye, but he was not even looking in our direction. His eyes were focused on the middle distance. His face was very pale, and he was breathing heavily. We looked at each other and seemed to know: it would be death, otherwise why was this normally calm man so nervous? And then he began to speak.
~ Nelson Mandela
a um morto não se recusa nada".
~ Nelson Rodrigues
My life is a Stephen King novel," she whispered. "Everything gets worse. And worse. And worse. When it finally can't get any worse, everybody dies.
~ Nevada Barr
Health is a moral issue. It is about life and death first. Money comes second. Trump and the Republicans' vision for health care reform must be about more than repealing Obamacare. It must be about more than insurance. It must create a clear, positive path for twenty-first-century health and health care.
~ Newt Gingrich
It's terrible when the old have to bury the young. But it is more terrible when neither the old nor the young are there to bury each other.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.
~ Niall Ferguson
although she doesn't know it yet here's Love and Death in the same breath
~ Niall Williams
My father's hand found the door locked. His calls to my mother went unanswered. He beat with his fists and called out her name, again and again, tears burning from his eyes. By the time I had come in the front door, the cake in my arms, he had broken his way in and discovered she was dead.
~ Niall Williams
There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.
~ Niall Williams
Creo que moriré de poesía
~ Nicanor Parra
He also told me he'd just written the epitaph for his tomb: LO PEOR YA PASO. PEOR HUMILLACION QUE LA DE EXISTIR NO HAY. THE WORST IS BEHIND. THERE IS NO HUMILIATION WORSE THAN EXISTENCE
~ Nicanor Parra
Entre ustedes y yo: El espíritu muere con la muerte.
~ Nicanor Parra