Quotes About Death

Alice Ramsay. Ik weet nu weer wat er is gebeurd, in elk geval een beetje. Op een of andere manier... was haar dood mijn schuld - ik heb haar dat aangedaan.' Hij liet zijn tranen nu de vrije loop. 'Dat is het enige wat ik weet. Van de rest kan ik me niet veel herinneren. Het is mijn schuld dat dit allemaal is gebeurd.' - Nick

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

But how could he admire Joyce's lengthy, libidinal 'yes' so fervently and end up saying 'no' to his own life? I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Life is hard, no? And full of sorrow. The Pilani dance in defiance of death and grief and hardship. They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than to gutter out like a dim flame.

Harris Blanchard was a terrible human being. But he was also a kid like Emily was, with a mother and a father. And his death hasn't changed my life for the better. It hasn't made Emily any more alive.

As you say, my duty is to serve you. But it is also to protect you. I will not lead you into certain death." I met his stubborn glare. "You will not be leading me into death. You will be following.

Living without love is worse than dying, Younger." William T.

At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will.

There is a kind of life that leads to death. There is a kind of death that leads to life.

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. ~King Solomon

Funerals are the rituals we create to help us face the reality of death, to give us a way of expressing our response to that reality with other persons, and to protect us from the full impact of the meaning of death for ourselves. Some funerals fulfill these functions beautifully. Others fail.

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such. He gives way without reserve to his most powerful passion and the wishes it engenders.

Lifting the pillow, he brought out kanarack's gun and hefted it in his hand. Tipping it toward him, he saw the hole where death came out. It looked easy. Even seductive. The Simplest way of all. No more fear of the police, or of the tall man. Best of all, his pain would be instantly gone. He Wondered why he hadn't thought of it before.

Vivemos, pensamos e operamos — eis o que é positivo. E que morremos, não é menos certo. Mas, deixando a Terra, para onde vamos? Que seremos após a morte? Estaremos melhores ou pior? Existiremos ou não? Ser ou não ser, tal a alternativa.

The Elvis imitation calls to mind 'Death Cab for Cutie,' the song the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band sang in Magical Mystery Tour.

Ha. If given a choice of dodging a bullet or stepping in its way, I'll choose dodging when I can. Anyway, to face death, you only need a dram of courage. To face life you need a good deal more.

When I was green and blossomed in the Spring I was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Death is funny in that it brings out the best and the worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear. The reality was starting to set in.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.