Quotes About Death

Evidence of identification was given by the husband, and the only other evidence was medical. Heather Badcock had died as a result of four grains of hy-ethyl-dexyl-barbo-quinde-lorytate, or, let us be frank, some such name.

Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

The Kiddles had come and conquered. Life was stronger than death.

Yes, it's horrid having a death here. It makes everyone depressed. Of course—he was quite old." "He seemed quite well and cheerful yesterday," said Miss Marple, slightly resenting this calm assumption that everyone of advanced years was liable to die at any minute.

He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly.

The hearse is at the door, sir.

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased.

This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims than my criminals. The more passionately alive the victim, the more glorious indignation I have on his behalf, and am full of a delighted triumph when I have delivered a near-victim out of the valley of the shadow of death. Returning

A volte si apre un abisso fra il passato e il futuro. Quando una persona si è incamminata nella valle all'ombra della morte, e ne torna fuori alla luce del sole...è allora, mon cher, che comincia una nuova vita. Il passato non serve più.

Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. Nine

Men get killed and nobody minds.

Biz ölümlüler ya?amla ölümü ay?ran bir çizgi üzerinde ya?amaktay?z.

Heart failure may always be translated as the inability of the local GP to discover what his patient really did die of...

Yes, poor Sir Bartholomew's death has been rather a godsend to me. There's just an off chance, you see, that I might have murdered him. I've rather played up to that.

So we are back at our last rather sketchy idea—fear. By the death of Stephen Babbington, someone gains security.

What an extraordinary coincidence." "How—a coincidence?" "That my mother should have made a will on the very day of her death!

The inquest, when it was held, was short and disappointing. Evidence of identification was given by the husband, and the only other evidence was medical. Heather Badcock had died as a result of four grains of hy-ethyl-dexyl-barbo-quinde-lorytate, or, let us be frank, some such name. There was no evidence to show how the drug was administered.

An opinionated boor," he [Dr. Stone about Colonel Protheroe] said with heat. "Yes, yes, I know he is dead, and no one should speak ill of the dead. But death does not alter facts. An opinionated boor describes him exactly...

Oh, yes, Madame. I have known of—shall we say A?—being removed by B solely in order to benefit C. Political murders often come under the same heading. Someone is considered to be harmful to civilization and is removed on that account. Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September—a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o'clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. There was nothing to be done. She had been dead some hours.

Kematian malah bisa berarti kehidupan yang lebih berarti.

Cher ami!" Poirot had said to me as I left the room. They were the last words I was ever to hear him say. For when Curtiss came to attend to his master he found that master dead.

It's certainly not a matter of life or death," agreed Mrs. Otterbourne. But there she was quite wrong—for a matter of life and death was exactly what it was.

Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine.