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Quotes About Death

Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.
~ Eddie Vedder
I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.
~ Sam Childers
Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
~ Jack Kevorkian
The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.
~ Emir Kusturica
In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.
~ Giorgio Bassani
But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.
~ Hubert Selby, Jr.
Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
~ Isaac Marion
When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.
~ Jenny Downham
I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.
~ John Lennon
I have faced Death. I have been caught in the wild weed tangles of Her hair, seen the gleam of her jade eyes. I will go when it is time - no choice! - but now I want life.
~ Keri Hulme
EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
~ Margaret Atwood
But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.
~ Rebecca Skloot
Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!
~ Joanne Harris
People die and people cry people want me dead.
~ Tupac Shakur
You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
~ Bill Vaughan
Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
~ Harold Pinter
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.
~ Anne Sexton
I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?
~ David Rubenstein
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
~ Douglas Coupland
Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
~ Henny Youngman
Death's easy to find. If She wants you, you'll meet Her here as well as anywhere.
~ Janet Morris