Quotes About Death

They wrapped her corpse in silver, a shroud in moonglow made... with an Ancient's chain they lowered her, while in pain their eyes did fade. Oh now the storm is raging, the ship has seen its last, and she will never see the sun... as long as the bones stand strong and fast.

Fleet kept running. He couldn't win, but he kept running. And when the storm caught him, it didn't matter that he'd died, because he'd run for all he had. We all die in the end, you see. So I guess what truly matters is just how well you've run.

Sailors will tell you that seasickness comes in two stages – in the first you think you're going to die and in the second you're very afraid you're not going to.

One leads, willing or not," Deputy Tallien answered. "It takes courage to face one's own death but even more so the death of others. We are learning this lesson well.

A guy could starve to death when his brother don't come home.

We know what it's like to fall in love and be disassembled, but we still want to pull death right off the bodies of one another.

El Mayor drink twice and thrice then crouch down to the radio. He tweak its side, and its voice halt in silence. His shoulders ease. Then I surprise how my own fear relieve. Radio voice been like the voice of flies when your best child is dead.

How did the care worker die?' 'Apparently I murdered her.

There's a saying in medicine that no one is dead until they are warm and dead.

No event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and of mental distress, as is burial before death… . What I have now to tell is of my own actual knowledge—of my own positive and personal experience. —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Premature Burial

You will journey far beyond the boundaries of your imagination. You will meet and seize your heart's desire. It will be the death of your soul.

It's only after people die that we realise how much we love them. We must wait until then to show him how much he means to us all.

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)

But thou shalt ever lie dead nor shall there be any remembrance of thee then or ever, for thou hast none of the roses of Pieria; but thou shalt wander unnoticed, even in the houses of Hades, flitting among the shadowy dead. Forever shalt thou lie dead, nor shall there be any remembrance of thee now or hereafter, for never has thou had any of the roses of Pieria; but thou shalt wander, eternally unregarded in the houses of Hades, flitting among the insubstantial shades.

but a kind of yearning has hold of me—to die and to look upon the dewy lotus banks of Acheron

Kaç kez, sana ÅŸimdi gelme, dedim Hermes, ruhlar? yuvalar?na götüren k?lavuz: ama mutsuzum, ölmek, Akheron boyunda açan ?slak nilüferleri görmek istiyorum ÅŸimdi

Death is bad. The gods must have thought so, for it if were a good thing, they then, too, would die.

Gongyla surely a sign especially for children who came here I said, O master [...] by the blessed Afroditi [...] I swear I take no pleasure in being on the earth but a longing seizes me to die and see the dewy lotus banks of the Aheron

All the time, I was trying to despise you--trying to prove you were the tramp that I believed. And yet at the same time I knew that if I was separated from you, I'd bleed to death.

A snowfield was like a bed, white and smooth and inviting: come and lay your head. Lay your head and sleep. A glittering soft death, a sliding away without noise or pain.

Dying shouldn't be so hard," he said. "It shouldn't be harder than living.

Each day is unique and precious, a coin to be spent thoughtfully. Waste nothing and your regrets will be few. The young cannot imagine death and for that reason they fear it. I am not afraid of death. I greet it as anyone who has a long and satisfying day's work behind them greets sleep. I have loved the stars too well to fear the night.

The boy had clearly been dead for some time--the police could wait another few more minutes for him.

Perfect love casts out fear, we are told. None of us is capable of perfect love, but as we help each other along this difficult journey which is life, the love we bear for one another does ease our burdens. And even in death, that love binds us together; truly, in death, we are not divided.