Quotes About Death

white lilies, the kind you would give to a bride or a corpse.

It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.

Much good may honour do them when they're dead

Neither of them wanted to be close to their father in life, so why would they want to be close to him in death?

How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing

But when you split someone's head open it smelled like an abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already in another life.

Archie was talking. Nothing will stop Archie talking, not even death probably, he will rumble on from the inside of his large coffin until the worms get fed up with the noise and eat his tongue –

The toll of the dead had been her business during the war, the endless stream of figures that represented the blitzed and the bombed passed across her desk to be collated and recorded. They had seemed overwhelming, but the greater figures—the six million dead, the fifty million dead, the numberless infinities of souls—were in a realm beyond comprehension.

Gloria had never understood why you would want to wear an instrument of torture and death as an ornament. You may as well wear a noose or a guillotine. At least Tatiana's earrings were plain, no twin dying bodies of Christ writhing on them. Did the crucifixes ever put the clients off ? Jews, Muslims, atheists, vampires— how did they feel?

Love of fate?' 'It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.

Daddy said he would rather we were alive and cowards than dead and heroes.

What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.

It was a relief to everyone, especially his wife, when, three years after he retired, he dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of an argument with a neighbor who had parked his car in front of their house.

A good rule of thumb was that the more noise someone was making the less likely they were to die.

Not comforting to see pain and death but just to see what she could not let herself imagine and therefore ruled her.

Unfortunately, I had a feeling I would never get to my bed as the vacuuming would strike me dead of an aneurysm. Death by Dyson. - Reed

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.

She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.

I shall die. I must die. I cannot be so unhappy, and live.

It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.

But, reader, we must not forget that Kind Phillip loved the queen and that without her, he was lost. This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.

If he was dead, well, that was interesting, too.

But you will die in any case, Ilyakoria. What good is everlasting fame to a man if he dies unloved?

Seasickness… is caused… by the disturbance… to the inner ear " he said. " You just need… to… look… at… the horizon…" His last words disappeared as he vomited violently over the side of the boat. "What's wrong " "Doctor Death is seasick.