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Quotes About Death

Time and death sleep side by side.
~ Garth Nix, Abhorsen
He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.
~ Diana Gabaldon, Voyager
At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.
~ Albert Camus
Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
~ Anna Quindlen
Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.
~ Ariana Franklin
People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.
~ Billy Connolly
I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.
~ Charles Bukowski
It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.
~ Dan Chaon
If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
~ Daniel Baldwin
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.
~ Charles Cowden Clarke
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
~ Rose Macaulay
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
~ Samuel Johnson
Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The news of Mr. Breitbart's death came as a surprise to me when I was informed of it this morning. My prayers go out to Mr. Breitbart's family as they cope during this very difficult time.
~ Shirley Sherrod
Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.
~ Stephen King
When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.
~ Sylvester Stallone
When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!
~ Terry Pratchett
I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember . . . dying.
~ Todd McFarlane
Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
~ Toni Morrison
For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
~ Walter Scott
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
~ Wendell Berry