Quotes About Death

Time is the best killer.

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.