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Quotes About Death

In life, they were torn apart; in death, they will be united.
~ Erin Hunter
Then he spotted Willowpelt diving from the top of a rock to streak across the ground and shove Sootpaw out of the way with outstretched forepaws. The badger landed heavily on her back; her shriek was cut off with a sickening crunch as the huge creature snapped her neck. It scooped up her limp body with one paw and tossed it into the clearing. Sootpaw
~ Erin Hunter
We should if they're being driven out of their territory and starved to death," Lionpaw argued. "What the Tribe needs is the warrior code, and we're going to teach it to them!
~ Erin Hunter
This one is for Ferncloud," Dewpaw continued. "She was killed by Brokenstar when she was defending the kits in the nursery. And this is Sorreltail. She hid her wounds because she wanted to take care of the kits, but she died just when we thought we had won. She was the bravest of all.
~ Erin Hunter
Trust ShadowClan cats to get competitive about deaths
~ Erin Hunter
I wish I hadn't saved you!" he blurted out. "I wish I'd gone for my brother first. Then maybe he'd still be alive!
~ Erin Hunter
Scourge is dead!
~ Erin Hunter
hissing vengeance for her betrayal, but Hollyleaf leaped forward at the final moment, taking Hawkfrost's death blow and saving Ivypool's life.
~ Erin Hunter
I give you this life for forgiveness. No death need ever be avenged. Forgiveness brings peace far more surely than vengeance.
~ Erin Hunter
Just remember, there is no need to be afraid of every flame. Fire can bring life, warmth, new growth, as well as death.
~ Erin Hunter
Storm's heart ached. It's so unfair, to die before you really live.
~ Erin Hunter
The first time, it was a she-cat. I'd seen her before in a different dream. She was dead and then she came back to life.
~ Erin Hunter
But sometimes I don't believe there'll be any peace in the forest until Tigerstar is dead.
~ Erin Hunter
What happens if he kills me here? Will I be really dead?
~ Erin Hunter
Ashfur was alive, and he'd taken Squirrelflight to a place where only the dead could reach her.
~ Erin Hunter
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
~ Beatrice Wood
No reptiles are found there [in Ireland], and no snake can live there; for, though often carried thither out of Britain, as soon as the ship comes near the shore, and the scent of the air reaches them, they die.
~ Bede
Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.
~ beecher henry ward xi
We go to the grave of a friend, saying, "A man is dead;" but angels throng about him, saying, "A man is born."
~ beecher henry ward xii
It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.
~ beecher henry ward xii
Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
~ beecher henry ward xix
We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?
~ beecher henry ward xvi
Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]
~ Beethoven
Your fingers smell of incense—a lover sings to the corpse of his dead sweetheart.
~ Bel Kaufman