Quotes About Death

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Death in love is the beginning of a eternal life ! Just make your soul free .

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.

Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.

There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.

Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.

Even death is a power, a capacity. It is not a simple event that will happen to me, an objective and observable fact; here my power to be will cease, here I will no longer be able to be here. But death, insofar as it belongs to me and belongs to me alone, since no one can die my death in my stead or in my place, makes of this non-possibility, this impending future of mine, this relation to myself always open until my end, yet another power. Dying, I can still die, this is our sign as man.

It must be admitted that such things were common coin of the period. Kingdoms were often handed over to adolescents, whose absolute power fasinated them as might a game. Hardly grown out of the age in which it is fun to tear the wings from flies, they might now amuse themselves by tearing the heads from men. Too young to fear or even imagine death, they would not hesitate to distribute it around them.

But nations never die of the death of a man, however great he may have been; their birth and their death derive from other causes.

Sendak is in search of what he calls a yummy death. William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. A happy death, says Sendak. It can be done. He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

The dead paid and the living are paying now. Let Brian hold on to his high opinion of his father, if you can. What harm does it do?

Know this: this creature is the bringer of death. He will never eat, he will never sleep, and he will never stop.

her stars; they had been waiting her whole life and she only had to find a way to reach them. But now that she saw them unfiltered, she felt revolted. They weren't beautiful. They were the lights of anglerfish, deep-sea monstrosities with glowing lures, calling the small and stupid toward jaws and needle teeth. There was only death out here, only void and fire, and the true beauty in the universe was what she had left behind.