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Quotes About Death

If you see one dead body, it's awful and compelling and hard to tear one's eyes away. If you see a hundred they start to mean nothing.
~ John Katzenbach
La vida no es más que eso, indicó el viejo analista meneando la cabeza. Un juego tras otro . Y la muerte es el mayor juego de todos.
~ John Katzenbach
My spirit is too weak—mortalityWeighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,And each imagin'd pinnacle and steepOf godlike hardship, tells me I must dieLike a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
~ John Keats
This living hand, now warm and capableOf earnest grasping, would, if it were coldAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nightsThat thou would wish thine own heart dry of bloodSo in my veins red life might stream again,And thou be conscience-calm'd—see here it is—I hold it towards you.
~ John Keats
I saw pale kings and princes too,Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;They cried—"La Belle Dame sans MerciHath thee in thrall!"
~ John Keats
from ODE to a NIGHTENGALE: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
~ John Keats
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.
~ John Keats
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
~ John Keats
Punks are nihilists who see no tomorrow at all, and dwell in a culture of death music and death imagery. Appropriately, Return focuses on a group of punks who bear names like Trash, Suicide, and Scum, their very names indicating their lack of respect for the world, and themselves. They see themselves as nothing in a world that doesn't value them, and won't survive an apocalypse.
~ John Kenneth Muir
Napredek in ?udovito obdobje besne?ega razvoja sta po njegovem ustvarila generacijo duševnih pohabljencev, ki bi bila potrebna nege v zdraviliš?ih. Prinesla sta s seboj množi?no živ?nost, množi?no histerijo, množi?ni dolg?as in množi?no smrt.
~ John Knittel
This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra--Oh! God of Gods--Death is but the doorway to new life--We live today-we shall live again--In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one. (The Mummy, Universal Studios, 1932)
~ John L. Balderston
You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.
~ John Lamb Lash
Remember Edouardo? Remember what happened to him when he tried to—" "Edouardo. Edouardo was a fool." "Yes, but the way he died …" "It does not matter, how you die." "But those cuts. What could have done it?" "It does not matter," the other man insisted. He nodded to the
~ John Lange
D'ye know the Black Swan, East India Dock Road?' Troy shook his head. 'Bloke found dead in his room. Blood all over the place. Door locked from the inside. A real Sherlock Holmes-er.
~ John Lawton
When you see as many dead as I do they begin to blur into one colossal corpse. The world-carcass.
~ John Lawton
PIE?? MI?OSNA DLA ?MIERCI Przychodzisz do mnie znów, Nie zapominasz o mnie. Do ko?ca trwa agonia, A? p?kn? me okowy. Wci?? si? pojawiasz obca i daleka Jeste? ?ywa, ?mierci. Stoisz jak zimna gwiazda Nad moj? rozpacz?. Lecz potem si? przybli?asz, ca?a w p?omieniach. Przyjd?, kochanko, jestem tu. Zabierz mnie, jestem twój.
~ John Leake
That it was sparing young people struck me as an enormous blessing, for there is nothing more devastating than the death of children.
~ John Leake
For Pol Pot, as for every other kamikaze of Kingdom Come, "the goal was not to destroy but to transmute." We have heard this chiliastic tommyrot before, from a variety of faith-based ethnic cleansers forever seeking to transmute the rest of us to death.
~ John Leonard
The death of Baldr is one of the most important moments in the mythology.
~ John Lindow
Of the approximately 4,000 runic inscriptions, most are from the Viking Age; most of these are from Sweden; and most of these are from the provinces around Lake Mälaren, especially Uppland. Most are memorial: They explain who erected the stone, whose death is memorialized, and what the relationship was between the two.
~ John Lindow
making laws with penalties of death, and consequently
~ John Locke
This shows, that the state of paradise was a state of immortality, of life without end; which he lost that very day that he eat: his life began from thence to shorten, and waste, and to have an end; and from thence to his actual death, was but like the time of a prisoner, between the sentence passed, and the execution, which was in view and certain.
~ John Locke
it seems a strange way of understanding a law, which requires the plainest and directest words, that by death should be meant eternal life in misery.
~ John Locke
I must confess, by death here, I can understand nothing but a ceasing to be, the losing of all actions of life and sense.
~ John Locke