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Quotes About Death

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
~ Eric Hoffer
Kai was always dead and gone. That was always the plan. That was the plan when I signed on for the role. That was the plan once I was talking to Julie when the role was coming to a close. It was always, 'He dies and is actually gone.'
~ Chris Wood
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have as a society. We are obsessed with youth and denying death.
~ Sebastian Lelio
So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.
~ Della Reese
For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make you think about the connectivity of the world, the similarities and differences. It shows the experiences we all go through: birth, childhood, falling in love, having kids, getting ill, dying.
~ Kevin Macdonald
My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but 'Nostalghia' really didn't do anything for me. 'The Sacrifice' was similarly disappointing for me. Next thing we knew, he was dead.
~ Geoff Dyer
Fear conquers fear. This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of exclusion from the pack.
~ Steven Pressfield
I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.
~ Steven Pressfield
Dienekes says the mind is like a house with many rooms," he said. "There are rooms one must not go into. To anticipate one's death is one of those rooms. We must not allow ourselves even to think it.
~ Steven Pressfield
Do not tell me death is real. It is not. I have sustained my heart for ages with the love my brother passed on to me, dead as he was.
~ Steven Pressfield
This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of exclusion from the pack.
~ Steven Pressfield
Dienekes says the mind is like a house with many rooms. There are rooms one must not go into. To anticipate death is one of those rooms. We must not allow ourselves even to think it.
~ Steven Pressfield
When one of tal Kyrte misses steppe and sky, she longs not just for their beauty but also their cruelty. For among the free people the foreawareness of one's death, and heaven's indifference to it, is the keenest and most brilliant pleasure, rendering all precious. This is the supreme mystery, the fact of existence itself, before which mortals may only stand in silence.
~ Steven Pressfield
The soul. Mother love. Courage. These are closer to God, she taught, because they alone are the same on both sides of death, in front of the curtain and behind. "When I first came
~ Steven Pressfield
You want to tell him about the conversations they have, the arguments over things long forgotten. You want to impress on him how many stories everyone has within them, how much each death diminishes Friendship, especially with the young people leaving. But again, he's done enough. And he's young, you don't expect him to understand.
~ Stewart O'Nan
Ya que, al fin y al cabo, vivir es esperar siempre algo más de lo que ya poseemos, algo más de lo que hacemos, y la muerte es lo único en que podemos confiar.
~ Stoker Bram
To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ROMANS 8:6
~ Stormie Omartian
Who's sick? If I want to die, I'll just die; it's too tiresome to be sick. - Lotus
~ Su Tong
Sono morto come è morta lei, ma non so ancora perchè d'improvviso lei abbia voluto morire se lei viveva così bene, per questo mentre morivo non riuscivo a chiudere gli occhi, il vecchio Tang me li ha sfregati con forza come se stesse affilando un coltello, ma non c'è riuscito nemmeno lui a chiuderli. Dicono che tutti quelli che muoiono ingiustamente tengono gli occhi spalancati per poter continuare ad occuparsi dei loro cari.
~ Su Tong
Death is insulting, and I resented its sudden appearance, like an unannounced visit from a boorish relative.
~ Sue Grafton
Some people die accidentally. It's a fact.
~ Sue Grafton
Every violent death represents the climax of one story and an introduction to its sequel.
~ Sue Grafton
Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.
~ Sue Grafton