Quotes About Death

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law He ought to die (spoke of the Jewish Sanhedrin, the Ruling Body of Israel, both Civil and Religious),

To die of obscurity is a great obloquy to an intellectual being.

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

A joke by fellow Texan and humorist Jack Handey sprang to mind: When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did—in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.

I was then operating under the Edna Ferber theory: Being an old maid is like death by drowning—a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.

As she lies in the bed she weeps, for Bing, for the melting, shimmering candles, the filigree on the holiday tablecloth. She is an unwilling astronaut, bumping against the thick glass of the ship, her line tangling lazily in zero gravity, face mask fogged with fear. My sister reaches across, over the bed, and we both embrace the mother, holding her on earth, pulling her onto the ship, breathing our oxygen into her line. Ten hours later she is dead.

Good," I said. "And we will do the same. But I miss him. I miss him like I miss Mother. Of course we'll honor their memory, and of course their souls have gone on to new lives, but I hadn't finished talking to them in this life." I knew what death meant now. It was conversations cut off.

Ah, quel che non intendo, è questo che è capace di ammazzarmi...

Everyone was eating, talking softly, glancing at me, hugging me, eating. It was as if someone had turned the volume down. Everything looked normal, but the sound was muted. Death did this, set all this weirdness in motion, made people appear out of nowhere carrying casseroles, saying 'I'm sorry' over and over, death muffled their voices.

If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now

How could a man with so much heart die from a heart attack?

I regarded the pumpkin thief's worst nightmare: splotchy coat, tattered ears, sleeping death rattle. "He gums robbers to death?" I asked. "What if they bring biscuits?

Life and death played out before my very eyes. You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

All Souls' Day is celebrated in many countries as a day both for remembering the dead and for celebrating the liberating aspects of death.

Alfred promised me that he would do just that—work for four weeks and on the fifth take a complete rest. That's the only way to arrange it because a man who's deeply involved can't shorten his work day very easily but he can organize a complete break. Unhappily, Alfred didn't do this. That's why he died.

after all we had been through, we would still risk death rather than live under communists. The craving for freedom was too strong.

Aki megszületik, annak meg is kell halnia. Akik találkoznak, azoknak el is kell válniuk... De amin megosztozunk ebben az életben, azt már soha nem lehet elvenni tÅ'lünk.

They said it was death to kill a sibyl, death to love a sibyl, death to be a sibyl … and they meant a living death.