Quotes About Death

Several times he prepared for suicide, asking his sword bearer to be his executioner.

bite by an asp is not necessarily fatal, and even when it is, as much as two hours may pass before life is extinguished.

and gave orders that "should anything happen to her" after his death she should not be buried in the Mausoleum.

He immediately set out from Rome, but Agrippa was dead when he arrived.

Sanford, this story that my son appears to have instructed you to tell me features a young man who gets shot in the head nine times at close range with a .38 pistol, once in the chest at close range with a .22 rifle, then bashed over the head by you with the ax two or maybe three times, but even then he was still alive and required a final blow from Stewart. And that was also a blow to the head with the ax. At which point this unfortunate fellow finally decided that this world was not for him.

Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you 'grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. (1880-1884)

Well, I take it that when a man comes to die, love is more to him than a kingdom; it may be, if we could see truly, that it is more to him even while he lives.

insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far and wide, and flow for years or centuries, could scarcely feel secure in reckoning that with the death of the Duke of Strelsau and the restoration of King Rudolf to liberty and his throne, there would end, for good and all, the troubles born of Black Michael's daring conspiracy.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80 000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Come join me for some tea so we can discuss how your giong to die

Pünd remembered their first case together when Fraser had failed to notice that his travelling companion, on the three-fifty train from Paddington, was actually dead.

Diana Cowper had planned her funeral and she was going to need it. She was murdered about six hours later that same day.

content and only his death would suffice. The metal key that

But there have been times when I have been very much in the shadows, when I have looked into the valley of death and wished – and wished I could enter.

Routine was going to kill Michael J. Roscoe and this was the day death had chosen to come calling. Of

She wasn't wearing her glasses and she destroyed my life. I went to the funeral because I was delighted she was dead and I wanted to see her put in the ground. I thought it would give me closure.

I want to be buried in a cardboard coffin.

I have had a long life and I will say that in many respects it has been a good one. I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

free wine and food were worth having even if they had no idea who had actually died.

Mrs Blakiston had always been in a hurry. It was impossible to escape the thought. She had quite literally flung herself down the stairs, hurrying into her own death.