Quotes About Death

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

Thirty years will pass before I remember that moment when suddenly I knew each man has one brother who dies when he sleeps and sleeps when he rises to face this life, and that together they are only one man sharing a heart that always labours, hands yellowed and cracked, a mouth that gasps for breath and asks, Am I gonna make it?

If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams.

What happens," called out Max, "if you win?" "We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained

Cattle die, kindred die, we ourselves shall die, but I know one thing that never dies: the reputations of each one dead.

I don't think we are cut out to be evil sorcerers, brothers," said Fentongoose. "If we were truly evil, we would not feel such sorrow at the deaths of our friends. We would just go, 'Ha! Ha! Ha!' or something.

The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.

He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.

Ring out your bells! Let mourning shows be spread!For Love is dead.

she was so upset by the report of the murder that she retired to her kitchen and fell down in a fit. After briefly regaining consciousness two days later she died on Wednesday 12th.

Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.

An acceptable death is a death which can be accepted or tolerated by the survivors. It has its antithesis: 'the embarrassingly graceless dying,' which embarrasses the survivors because it causes too strong an emotion to burst forth; and emotions must be avoided both in the hospital and everywhere in society. One does not have the right to become emotional other than in private, that is to say, secretly.

These people no doubt became more common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and judging from La Fontaine, those who tried to cheat death were found primarily among the old: He who most resembles the dead is the most reluctant to die. Eighteenth-century

Mon frère meurt.

Later I will do the same with death. I will behave as if life will just continue. I will talk to a friend the day before he dies, imagining the future, even when he is emaciated, intubated, clearly on his deathbed. When I hear of his passing, it will always be a surprise to me.

Je songe que l'énigme de sa mort est ce qui me divertit du mystère de sa vie.

El anciano se llama Linh. Es el único que lo sabe, porque el resto de las personas que lo sabían están muertas.

The strange land exhausts him. Death exhausts him. It has fed on him in the way young eager goats suckle their mother, forcing her to lie on her side because she cannot continue. Death has taken everything from him. He has nothing left. He is thousands of kilometres from a village that no longer exists, thousands of kilometres from the empty tombs of the corpses who died only a few feet away from them. He is thousands of days away from a life that was once beautiful and delightful.

Las palabras son complicadas. Apenas he hablado en mi vida. Escribo «en mi vida», como si ya estuviera muerto. En el fondo, es verdad. Es la pura y única verdad. Hace mucho tiempo queme siento muerto. Hago como si siguiera viviendo. Mi sentencia está en suspenso, eso es todo.

Het is zo moeilijk om de doden te doden. Hoe vaak heb ik het al niet geprobeerd? Alles zou zoveel eenvoudiger zijn als het anders was.

Le berger doit toujours songer au lendemain. Tout ce qui appartient à hier appartient à la mort, et ce qui importe c'est de vivre, tu le sais bien, Brodeck, toi qui est revenu d'où on ne revient pas.

Aunque sepa que un día morirá, el hombre no puede vivir continuamente en un mundo que no le devuelve más que la conciencia de su propia muerte, un mundo saturado de muerte y que sólo ha sido ideado para eso.

Elle dit elle-même qu'elle ne s'en souvient pas, et que cela de toute façon ne l'a pas empêchée de naître et ne l'empêchera pas de mourir.

When I see a dead bird," Hans Dorfer said to me, "and I pick it up in my hand, tears come into my eyes. I can't make them not come. Nothing can justify the death of a bird. But if my father croaked all of a sudden, right here, right next to me, I swear I'd dance around the table and buy you a drink. I swear.