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Quotes About Death

Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.
~ Rachel Caine
Doer, dói sempre. Só não dói depois de morto. Porque a vida toda é um doer.
~ Rachel De Queiroz
Talvez que o amor da morte seja como o amor por homem, e a gente só se satisfaça, só se console e se cure depois de possuída e extenuada.
~ Rachel De Queiroz
Devon Hamilton-Zemaitis was a beautiful woman. Being dead didn't change that.
~ Rachel Gibson
Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
~ John Pearson
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
~ Mary Quant
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
~ Amy Lowell
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
~ George S. Kaufman
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
~ Jack Kevorkian
What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
~ Bernie Siegel
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
~ Daniel Berrigan
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
~ Leo Kottke
Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.
~ Koren Zailckas
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
~ Liam Neeson
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.
~ Joan Rivers
World In Flames' is pretty powerful to me, it's about waking up in the middle of the night, the whole world has ignited into flames, and I'm there alone. And it's kind of like a fear of dying alone and the whole world is burning.
~ Maria Brink
The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death!
~ Edward Everett Hale
Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Our investigation found that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in their use of force after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker. This justification bars us from pursuing charges in Ms. Breonna Taylor's death.
~ Daniel Cameron
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
~ Henry Miller
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
~ Stokely Carmichael