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Quotes About Death

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.
~ James Baldwin
Am I boring you, Hirad?" "What do you think?" "Your ignorance is not my concern," said Denser. "Gods falling, Denser, I've been dead ten years. There are gaps in my knowledge." "There were plenty of those when you were alive." "It was part of my charm," said Hirad.
~ James Barclay
Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.
~ James Boswell
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.
~ James Branch Cabell
It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his.
~ James Branch Cabell
Live as long as you can. Die when you can't help it.
~ James Brown
Cassius laughed, genuinely amused. "You truly are a fool, Priest." He shook his head. "A treasure … I've never heard it called that." "It represents life." "It represents death, Priest—it is death.
~ James Byron Huggins
Uma tribo de índios americanos tem um velho ditado que diz: "Quando você nasceu, você chorou e o mundo se regozijou. Viva sua vida de tal maneira que, quando você morrer, o mundo chore e você se regozije.
~ James C. Hunter
Há apenas duas coisas na vida que vocês têm que fazer. Vocês têm que morrer e fazer escolhas. Dessas não há como escapar.
~ James C. Hunter
Communion over loneliness. Death not an end, but a beginning. At home in the absolute—and absolutely unknown—future.
~ James Carroll
Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
~ James Clavell
Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage.
~ James Clavell
Oare ce-s nourii Daca nu o justificare a cerului? Oare ce-i viata Daca nu o amanare a mortii?
~ James Clavell
Japan had held 132,134 western POWs and 35,756 of them died in detention, a death rate of 27 percent. In contrast, only 4 percent of the POWs held by the Germans and Italians died.
~ James D. Bradley
From the vantage point of the Information Society, the spectacle of soldiers in the modern period traveling halfway around the world to entertain death out of loyalty to the nation-state will come to be seen as grotesque and silly. It will seem not far different from some of the extraordinary and exaggerated rites of chivalry, like walking about in leg irons, which otherwise sensible people took pride in doing during the feudal period.
~ James Dale Davidson
In history, as in nature, birth and death are equally balanced."1 —JOHAN HUIZINGA
~ James Dale Davidson
It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.
~ James Dashner
Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?
~ James Dashner
Sometimes I wonder," Thomas murmured. "Wonder what?" "If being alive matters. If being dead might be a lot easier.
~ James Dashner
I watched as that kid died. In his last few seconds there was pure terror in his eyes. You can't do that. You can't do that to a person. I don't care what anybody tells me, I don't care how many people go crazy and die, I don't care if the whole shuck human race ends. Even if that was the only thing that had to happen to find the cure, I'd still be against it.
~ James Dashner
Algunas veces me pregunto... -murmuró Thomas. -¿Te preguntas, qué? -Si importa estar vivo. Si no sería mucho más facil estar muerto.
~ James Dashner
We can't play God. We can't do this to kids. You're evil, I'm evil. Everyone will die. No matter what. Let nature win.
~ James Dashner
A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains.
~ James Dashner
His friend Chuck, stabbed in the chest, bleeding, dying as Thomas held him.
~ James Dashner