Quotes About Death

Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk, it's the universal protest against Time. Just remember, dear Friends: What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. // The Year of the Flood

No, you will not be cooked on a fire when you die. Because you are not a fish.

will be less dignified, more painful, death will be sooner, (it is no longer possible to be both human and alive) : lying piled with the others, your face and body covered so thickly with scars only the eyes show through.

Their mother died early, and not in a good way. Not that anyone dies in a good way, Tin footnotes to himself, but there are degrees. Being hit by a truck after closing time while jaywalking blinded with mournful tears was not a good way. Though it was quick.

Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.

These words are yours, though you never said them, you never heard them, history breeds death but if you kill it you kill yourself.

Are you an evening bird Watching the moon Singing Alone, Alone, Singing Dead Too Soon?

Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot.

Every day a bad-hair day? My hair was driving me crazy, but then Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I died. Don

And once you've got clocks, you've got death and dead people, because time, as we know, runs on, and then it runs out, and dead people are situated outside of time, whereas living people are still immersed in it.

Nothing safer than dead

Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that women must labour to be beautiful, but Reynolds--who used to be a passionate Yeats fan--is now of the opinion that Yeats is entitled to his point of view, but that was then and social attitudes were different then, and in actual fact Yeats is dead.

she might have died in the accident. But there was nothing—nothing—a priest could offer her.

W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she condemn you to such a life?' 'Well, you see, she had a rather gloomy idea of life. She thought we are all born to suffer and the more we suffer now the less we shall hereafter. She thought it was wrong to be happy. I expect she worked all that out because she was married to Father.' (116)

Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

Ho paura di morire e di andare all'inferno. - Se egli avesse riso, sarebbe morta. Ma Rhett non rise. - Siete in ottima salute, mi pare.. e forse l'inferno non c'è. - - C'è Rhett! Sapete benissimo che c'è!- - So che c'è; ma è qui, sulla terra. Non dopo che saremo morti. Dopo la morte non vi è nulla, Rossella. Il vostro inferno lo provate adesso. -

Archie's carrying him to the vacant lot near Belle's. He's dead. Shot through the head.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death.