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Quotes About Death

neglected.Locke.2. Reformation of life. Our Lord and Saviour was of opinion, that they which would not be drawn to amendment of life, by the testimony which Moses and the prophets have given, concerning the miseries that follow sinners after death, were not likely to be persuaded by other means, although God from the dead should have raised them up preachers.Hooker,b. v. ¶ 22. Behold! famine and plague, tribulation and anguish, are sent as scourges for amendment.Bible2 Esdras,xvi. 19.
~ Samuel Johnson
Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,Thou dreadful Ajax; that th' appalled airMay pierce the head of thy great combatant.Shakesp. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum; but took time to consider of it till next day.Clarendon. Does neither rage inflame, nor fear appal,Nor the black fear of death that saddens all.Pope.
~ Samuel Johnson
AMORT  (AMO'RT)   adv.[à la mort, Fr.]In the state of the dead; dejected; depressed; spiritless. How fares my Kate? what, sweeting, all amort?Shakespeare'sTaming of the Shrew.
~ Samuel Johnson
I never saw the approaches of death in a grown person before; and was extremely shocked. Death, to one in health, is a very terrible thing. We pity the person for what she suffers: and we pity ourselves for what we must some time hence in like sort suffer; and so are doubly affected.
~ Samuel Richardson
If Mickey tried to pump his chest, his bones would crunch into little bitty bits. Not even Mickey, seduced into the Leggo's philosophy of doing everything always for every patient forever, would dare call a cardiac arrest. Mickey called a cardiac arrest. From all over the House, terns and residents stormed into the room to save the Man With Agonal Respirations from a painless peaceful death.
~ Samuel Shem
Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
EPITAPH ON AN INFANT Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade,   Death came with friendly care: The opening Bud to Heaven convey'd,   And bade it blossom there.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.
~ Samuel Wells
The conversation had left her feeling more disturbed than ever. She had bared her soul about the tragic death of her parents and its effect on her, a topic she was
~ Sandra Brown
dead." Her heart rate ticked up. She glanced at
~ Sandra Brown
She wasn't soft, but she never saw the sense of a living thing dying such a cruel death just for some woman's vanity. Still, she thought, a fur coat when the wind blew down off the Tenmile Range would feel mighty good. Maybe they made fur coats out of foxes that died of old age.
~ Sandra Dallas
Will was dead, but Missouri Ann was going to have a baby. Birth and death were God's way, she told herself. Joy and sorrow were joined together.
~ Sandra Dallas
Sometimes it seemed as if the burden of each death was added to the others until she was bowed under the weight of dead souls.
~ Sandra Dallas
Love and a sense of calmness are the only things you need to bring to the experience of death.
~ Sandra Ingerman
Is only skew insanities, how God survive when we all kilt. How any person worship gods, when gods ain't even brave to die.
~ Sandra Newman
Ik keer me naar de kist. De kist met mijn dood, niet mijn leven. Want mijn leven, dat ben ik, en ik ben eeuwig. Toch kent niemand de waarheid: dat ik voor hen sta als een actrice die na haar laatste applaus het toneel verlaat. Mijn kostuum en mijn masker liggen in de kist, en iedereen denkt dat ik het ben.
~ Santa Montefiore
Ningún sonido. Sintió en los oídos un pitido, la ilusión acústica que se produce cuando nada suena a nuestro alrededor. La pampa transmitía la música de la muerte.
~ Santiago Roncagliolo
Quizá cada gato o cada perro se crea inmortal, porque no ha muerto. ¿Me sigue usted? Pero nosotros sabemos que moriremos y vivimos obsesionados con combatir la muerte, lo cual hace que ella tenga una presencia desmedida, a menudo aplastante, en nuestra vida. El ser humano tiene alma en la justa medida en que es consciente de su propia muerte.
~ Santiago Roncagliolo
Lo peor no es la muerte. Es la tristeza de los que quedamos vivos. Es el vacío.
~ Santiago Roncagliolo
She will be your death. She will be everyone's death." "She has failed most miserably at being 'everyone's death.' She's effectively harmless, Membricus." "No woman is ever harmless!
~ Sara Douglass
Usually people avoided mentioning Abel's name, as if he'd done something unforgiveable. Which I guess he had: He reminded people of the cruel unfairness of life, and the closeness of death.
~ Sara Gran
Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.
~ Sara Gruen