Quotes About Death

j'ai encore plus peur de la malédiction des morts que de la haine des vivants.

Paid the last debt of nature

Mon Dieu ! mon Dieu ! dit Morrel, vous m'épouvantez, comte, avec ce sang-froid. Pouvez-vous donc quelque chose contre la mort ? Êtes-vous plus qu'un homme ? Êtes-vous un ange ? Êtes-vous Dieu ?'' Et le jeune homme, qu'aucun danger n'avait fait reculer d'un pas, reculait devant Monte-Cristo , saisi d'une indicible terreur. Mais Monte-Cristo le regarda avec un sourire à la fois si mélancolique et si doux, que Maximilien sentit les larmes poindre dans ses yeux.

He consigned his unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, and found them all insufficient, because after torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least the boon of unconsciousness.

Two methods of self-destruction were at his disposal. He could hang himself with his handkerchief to the window bars, or refuse food and die of starvation. But the first was repugnant to him. Dantes had always entertained the greatest horror of pirates, who are hung up to the yard-arm; he would not die by what seemed an infamous death.

Did you not hear what I said, sir? I told you there was fire in my sentence. And though it is only after death that my body is to be burnt, it will always be a terrible disgrace on my memory. I am saved the pain of being burnt alive, and thus, perhaps, saved from a death of despair, but the shamefulness is the same, and it is that I think of.

Obsequies, madame, are for those who survive, not for the dead.

Femeia aceasta este într-adev?r frumoas?, dar frumoas? ca o moart?, frumoas? ca o umbr?, frumoas? ca vedeniile ce È›i se arat? în vis; tocmai de aceea mi se pare c-am v?zut-o în vis... È™i am avut vreo dou?-trei visuri însp?imânt?toare în viaÈ›a mea, de care când îmi amintesc îmi înghea?? sângele în vine

There are other things to fear, Monsieur,' Villefort said, 'apart from death, old age and madness. For example, apoplexy, that lightning bolt which strikes you down without destroying you, yet after which all is finished. You are still yourself, but you are no longer yourself: from a near-angel like Ariel you have become a dull mass which, like Caliban, is close to the beasts. As I said, in human language, this is quite simply called an apoplexy or stroke.

Death does not reckon by years; it is impartial; some die young, some reach old age.

Athos, c'est votre femme, vous dis-je, répétait d'Artagnan, ne vous rappelez-vous donc pas comme les deux signalements se ressemblent ? - J'aurais cependant cru que l'autre était morte, je l'avais si bien pendu.

Digo que el amor es una lotería en la que el que gana, gana la muerte. Sois muy afortunado por haber perdido, creedme, mi querido D'Artagnan. Y si tengo algún consejo que daros, es perder siempre.

Nos, Margit, esküdjék meg, hogy ha meghalok önért - mint ahogy valami szomorú elÅ'érzet súgta -, megÅ'rzi és néha-néha megcsókolja ezt a fejet, melyet hóhér választ el a törzsétÅ'l.

Buckingham voulut sourire une dernière fois; mais la mort arrêta sa pensée, qui resta gravée sur son front comme un dernier baiser d'amour.

Trebuie sa fi vrut sa mori ca sa stii cat de placut e sa traiesti.

Era venuto il momento di fissare lo sguardo sullo spettro implacabile che cammina a fianco di ogni creatura umana e che a ogni pulsazione del cuore le grida: Tu morrai

So, in five seconds, he was born, he lived and he died. After thirty years of existence and six months of torture, Gully Foyle, the stereotype Common Man was no more. The key turned in the lock of his soul and the door was opened. What emerged expunged the Common Man for ever.

The law makes the silliest damned fuss about death. People die by the thousands everyday; but simply because someone has had the energy and enterprise to assist old D'Courtney to his demise, the law insists on turning him into an enemy of the people. I think it's idiotic, but please don't quote me.

Let me die, for God's sake!' 'What's the matter? Does it hurt? I died for six months, and I didn't whine.

He was dead. He knew he was dead. He refused to submit to eternity. He beat again into the unknown.

Girl : do you hear me? cause although it seemed to be the end of the world to me - it wasn't. There was a lot more world : cause roads that look set to take you in one direction will sometimes twist back on themselves without ever seeming anything other than straight, ... many things get forgiven in the course of a life : nothing is finished or unchangeable except death and even death will bend a little if what you tell of it is told right.

The best way to die is when you're living.

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.