Quotes About Death

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

Je meurs avec l'Europe, je suis en bonne compagnie.

The truth was that we all faced death here. For my part I was somewhat fatalistic - if it happened, then so be it. But I wanted to survive. The future - even without Alice - called to me, and I didn't want that taken away.

Her trade is death and torture.

Grimalkin was never meant to die in a warm bed - she should have met her end in battle, as a warrior.

A witch should not fear her own death. It is just the setting of a sun and a promise of the darkness that is our true home.

I have become the mother of death.

When the good die, it sometimes unshackles evil that would otherwise have been kept in check!

The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.

We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death – this is the task of this young generation.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

because Christians believed that the death of a holy person was a new birth in heaven, and they honored that date.

I died at Lake Silencio and all my wife got me was this lousy T-shirt.

Life After Life, by Raymond A. Moody, Jr., M.D.

I will love you like no other for I have died a thousand tiny deaths and everytime I died I thought of you.