Quotes About Death

Ignite the flares, connect the phones, wind all the clocks; the sun goes rusty like a medal in its box - collect it from the loft. Peg out the stars, replace the bulbs of Jupiter and Mars. A man like that takes something with him when he dies, but he has wept the coins that rested on his eyes, eased out the stopper from the mouthpiece of the cave, exhumed his own white body from the grave.

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will not last long, because, just as my song relents, love rarely stays when it descends on children's hearts, but meets its death the way that warmth fades on our breath.

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

Historia naszego ?ycia, a czasem i ?mierci, jest zapisana w ko?ciach.

Ã…Å¡mier?, ów proces alchemii na wspak, w którym zÅ'oto ?ycia ulega rozbiciu na cuchnÄ…ce skÅ'adniki wyjÅ›ciowe.

Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone.

La muerte había provocado sus habituales y siniestros cambios, una alquimia inversa que transformó el oro de la vida en materia abyecta y pestilente.

On his death even The Times remarked that, 'never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased king'.

Jacob, it's John Watkins … Where are you …?' He listened as he sped along the country roads. 'Well, I'm sorry, but you'll have to make your apologies and leave. Meet me at your office as soon as you can … Yes, it is an emergency. I have hugely radioactive rocks that need a safe house … Now. Can you do that? They might be responsible for one death already … Yes, really … Thanks, see you in a bit.

When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

There's nothing like a major emergency and the almost certain death of the whole damned world to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

After all, you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

The Benders had died in a helicopter explosion but were otherwise in perfect health.

The first century of the plague had seen the country turned upside down. In the twilight years of Edward III it seemed that nothing could damage the greatness of the Plantagenet royal estate. But the world of the village went from impoverished claustrophobia to traumatized infection. A hundred years later, everything had been upended, courtesy of King Death.

The Cheka, precursor of the OGPU, NKVD, KGB and today's FSB, had absolute supralegal power over life and death. 'In that case why should we bother with a People's

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

She told me that while my father's body might be crushed under tons of black earth, the body is nothing but camouflage. She whispered that every soul is a river trying to find its way back to the sea.

Then, breathing slow, and almost deliberately, stops. But for a moment the old man doesn't realize he is dead. He can feel Martin's heart and mistakes it for his own.

The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room.

I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.