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Quotes About Death

There will be time to murder and create.
~ T. S. Eliot
Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.
~ Ted Rall
Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
~ William S. Burroughs
Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.
~ Frank Yerby
Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
~ Franz Lehar
Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.
~ Garth Nix
If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.
~ George MacDonald
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
~ Herbert Spencer
From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.
~ Jay Smith
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!
~ Joseph Addison
And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.
~ Jules Laforgue
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
~ Bette Midler
Every time an idiot dies, your IQ goes down.
~ Bill Ballance
No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.
~ C. S. Lewis
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
~ Cornel West
To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
~ Antonio Porchia
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
~ Florence Nightingale
Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.
~ Frederick Lenz
My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.
~ Homer
The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.
~ James Kenneth Stephen
Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
~ Joan Didion