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Quotes About Death

All life is a rhythm, " she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes.
~ Samuel R. Delany
What's a Laster? A dead man.
~ L.E. Sterling, True Born
Life without death simply isn't life, but death
~ Juliet Daniel
You didn't tell Summer about it, did you?""What?" Gage scoffs. "Yeah, telling your girlfriend the Angel of Death might visit her if some switch is flipped is normal pillow talk.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.
~ Sharon Sant, Runners
What happens, " called out Max, "if you win?""We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained
~ Philip Palmer
My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he'd be my undoing…" Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy
~ Sarah J. Pepper
My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood.
~ Kerry Alan Denney, Marionettes
Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!
~ Dr. James Foster
As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.
~ S. L. Viehl
Dying was never as hard as having to live again.
~ Lynn Vroman, Energy Reborn
We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.
~ C.J. Anderson, Ruinland
The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion...
~ J.D. Robb, Immortal in Death
It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.
~ Wolf Pascoe, Breathing for Two
Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.
~ Nick Lane
I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips
~ Muhammad Iqbal
The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
~ Sylvia Plath
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
~ Jean Paul
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.
~ John Milton