Quotes About Death

Rainwater diluted redness, created a pink death, his matter mixing through mud and grass.

The boys were already dead, though, and when the paramedics arrived, they determined that the body temperatures were 107 and 108 degrees.

They determined that the death count based solely on the medical autopsies had underestimated the damage. Between 14 and 20 July, 739 more Chicago residents died than in a typical week for that month. In fact, public health scholars have established that the proportional death toll from the heat wave in Chicago has no equal in the record of U.S. heat disasters.

she died of internal weeping

There's no shame in loving life above death. Otherwise I would be dead. What use would that be to the gods, who will not die themselves?

I don't believe in dying for causes. I don't believe in dying for poetry. Once I worshiped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Dac? pronunÈ›i cuvântul MOARTE într-un spital, nimeni nu aude. E sigur c? se las? t?cerea È™i-apoi se schimb? subiectul.

Oscar, la malattia è come la morte. E' un fatto. Non è una punizione.

Sufletul? VorbiÈ›i ca un preot, Fichet! CredeÈ›i c? exist? suflet? - Sigur. E o ran? care sângereaz? mereu È™i nu se vindec? niciodat?. Nu dispare decât odat? cu moartea.

Tanti Roz, mi se pare c? au inventat un alt spital decât cel real. Se prefac c? oamenii nu vin la spital decât ca s? se vindece. DeÈ™i unii vin ca s? moar?. -Ai dreptate, Oscar. ?i cred c? facem aceeaÈ™i greÈ™eal? È™i-n privinÈ›a vieÈ›ii. Uit?m c? viaÈ›a e fragil?, f?râmicioas?, efemer?. Ne credem toÈ›i nemuritori.

Intimement, J'en ai le désir, presque le goût. Mourir plutôt qu'attendre la mort.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

The common suffering is the alienation from oneself, from one's fellow man, and from nature; the awareness that life runs out of one's hand like sand, and that one will die without having lived; that one lives in the midst of plenty and yet is joyless.

Hanya ada satu kepastian, yaitu kepastian tentang masa lampau. Sedangkan tentang masa depan, yang ada hanyalah kepastian tentang kematian

One discovers answers to problems only when one feels that they are burning and that it is a a matter of life and death to solve them. Is nothing is of burning interest, one's reason and one's critical faculty operate on a low level of activity; it appears then that one lacks the faculty to observe.

Nos morituri te salutamus." The traditional greeting of the gladiators: We who are about to die salute you…

There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.

In the old days, coffins were equipped with a warning system—a chain attached to a bell on the grave in case of a premature burial. They say at night, when the mist rolls in, you can hear those bells." He glanced over the railing. "The dead down there don't want to be forgotten…ever again.

Bengali poem by Ram Mohun Roy which bears on the subject matter of this essay.* Roy explains what is really dreadful about death: Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be. Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.

They say it looked like a big flower had sprung in the place where I shot myself dead, just like those ribbon pigtails clung onto either side of your head.

I'm told they buried they body with the garter belt still on.

Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone and as irrational as a headless hen.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.