Quotes About Death

My sisters, you, his daughters! Now that you've heard our father's iron curses, I implore you in the name of the gods, if father's curses all come true at last, and if some way back to Thebes is found for you, don't neglect me, please, give me burial, the honored rites of death.

If I thought you would blurt out such absurdities, you'd have died waiting before I'd had you summoned.

This day will bring your birth and your destruction.

A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.

But death was a wind too strong for that.

For you have confused the upper and lower worlds. You have thrust the child of this world into living night, You have kept from the gods below the child that is theirs. The one on a grave before her death, the other, Dead, denied the grave. This is your crime.

Now, in this one day, wailing, madness and doom, death, disgrace

I, with my eyes, how could I look my father in the eyes when I go down to death?

But leave me to my own absurdity, leave me to suffer this - dreadful thing. I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.

Tell it anyway. Little words can mean death or life sometimes.

We have only a little time to please the living, But all eternity to love the dead.

This way, O come! The angel of the dead, Hermes, and veiled Persephone lead me on!

S takva djela dika mi je mrijet, Jer draga do njeg - do dragog ?u u grob le?, U?iniv sveti grijeh. Ta dulje svi?at se Ja svijetu moram onom negol' ovome, Jer ondje dovijek ?u po?ivat. Svi?a l' se Onako tebi, zakon božji pogazi!

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

How empty life is and without meaning. - We bury a man, we follow him to the grave, we throw three spades of earth on him, we ride out in a coach, we ride home in a coach, we take comfort in the thought that a long life awaits us. But how long is threescore years and ten? Why not finish it at once?

Erik ! Erik! I saved your life! Remember!You were sentenced to death! But for me, you would be dead now!

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

Let all live as they would die.

A faire death honours the whole life.

He that feares death lives not.

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.