Quotes About Death

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of the mess I am in now, he thought for a long time, and I didn't care much for his answer. 'Yes,' he said. 'Death would help.'

Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

Time is what death needs to grow people in.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

DOUBLE DEATH FOR THE KIND PHILANTHROPISTS

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6

That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Solitude! How do we picture it? A man alone on a raft in the midst of a boundless sea. A figure against a graying sky, with chasms beneath and ice peaks above. Such a derelict between life and death I felt myself to be

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial—whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.