Quotes About Death

know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kids grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.

I mean, doesn't it seem like it could have been two people? Somehow? Michelle's murder was just—Your mom and Debby were like, uh, hunted down almost. But Michelle dies in her bed, covers pulled up. They have different feels to them. I think.

On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They've been there for a year. I can't resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away.

Why do we need time travel? All the answers come down to one. To elude death.

I snuck a glance at her. She wore a teasing little smile. I shifted my attention to the fighting. What she did to me, just sitting there, amidst the fury of the end of the world, was more frightening than the prospect of a death in battle. I am too old to boil like a horny fifteen-year-old.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.

In this wealthy, technologically advanced, highly educated nation, more and more of our darkest children are dying on the streets--literally. Still, this uncontested reality polarizes adults along racial lines, not as we attempt to discover meaningful solutions to these brutal slaughters but in our racially balkanized expression of beliefs and determinations regarding the cause of these senseless deaths.

Detestamos a los cazadores y más a los disecadores —peor que quitar la vida es conservar la muerte—.

De la vida por ahora no me cerrarán la puerta, besaré por no morir amaré por no estar muerta.

En demasía lo bueno se hace malo, la píldora veneno y vicio la caricia; sabes de todo un poco y vas al cine, sabes de todo mucho y te suicidas. Mucha vida (cien años) es la muerte —se hace malo lo bueno en demasía—. La soledad, es ese gran espejo donde acabas por verte monstruoso; el silencio es la tuerca en el oído que se te va ajustando al agujero, demasiado silencio es igual que una bomba y demasiado amor es igual que un entierro.

At such times I felt instinctively that a life and death struggle was going on inside me in which I, the owner of the body, was entirely powerless to take part, forced to lie quietly and watch as a spectator the weird drama unfolded in my own flesh.

What did Romeo and Juliet do?" They died," I remind her gently. "Some mix-up with the poison-

But a dead man doesn't care what uniform he's wearing.

During construction, when a worker died, his body was built right into the Wall itself. No one knew how many corpses lay within the stone and mortar, but some estimates ran as high as three million souls.

Down there, people would be relieved to know they're dead, and - and -' Her voice cracked. He stuck out his chin, daring her to say it. And what? And maybe we should be too, Amy blurted.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes.

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no .

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

The next week both small pox and the bloody flux began to go through the camp. General Washington maintained that the flux came from drinking new cider. But the cider-drinking continued, and so for that matter did the flux, which is a terrible death, the bowels emptying out one's life in bloody spasms. I

I was passing in the street and thought I'd bring you the news straight from the port. Lafayette is dead!" "One cannot say that he was taken before his time. We must restrain our grief.

The following is in no way a death wish. I like life just fine, but when the time comes, my favorite way of dying would be by … EXPLOSION—all over white walls!