Quotes About Death

The baby turns and stretches inside, and a house I thought had many rooms turns out to have just one, where birth and death duke it out to decide whose turn it is this time.

We do not rest because now I know what we are running from, and it looks a lot like death.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

What about hanging ourselves? Hmm. It'd give us an erection. An erection! With all that follows. Where it falls mandrakes grow. That's why they shriek when you pull them up. Did you not know that? Let's hang ourselves immediately!

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Birth was the death of him.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at the living without thinking of the dead. We are too fond of seeing the ancients as one thing and the moderns as another.

Cuando muera, lo haré con la plena y segura esperanza de que no habrá resurrección, pero esa muerte me aportará una paz absoluta.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Here closed in death th' attentive eyesThat saw the manners in the face.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death.

I am disappointed by that stroke of death [Garrick's], which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.