Quotes About Death

I even have a funny notion that if I do die, maybe Peeta will be allowed to live. Not as a free person but as an Avox or something, waiting on the future tributes of District 12. Then maybe he could find some way to escape. My death could, in fact, still save him.

Seni ya öldürmek ya da öpmek isteyecekler.

The smell of blood . . . it was on his breath.

No he dejado de temblar. Quizá la chica no se acuerde de mí, aunque sé que me engaño: no se te olvida la cara de la persona que era tu última esperanza. Me pregunto si disfrutará viéndome morir.

Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die above ground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.

Go on, shoot me. And he goes down with me and you win. Go on. I'm dead anyway. I always was, right? I just couldn't tell until now.

i killed you, i think as I pass a pile. and you. and you

The music swells and I recognize the brilliance of it. As the notes overlap, they complement one another, forming a lovely, unearthly harmony. It was this sound then, thanks to Rue, that sent the orchard workers of District 11 home each night. Does someone start it at quitting time, I wonder, now that she is dead?

Let me die. Let me follow the others,

No vas a dejarme sola –insisto, porque si muere, en realidad nunca volveré a casa, me pasaré el resto de mi vida en este campo de batalla, intentando encontrar la salida.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Reuben nails my fantasies everytime, with iron rods of reality. He asserts that I am going to die, but probably not for a while, and that maybe I should try getting married and having a life first. He is 70 and knows things, which is why I go to him. But it's sad to leave my romantic illusions at the door of this passage. Although false and destructive and useless, they've been tremendous company.

Spirit visits of this kind are remarkable because they stay with you and do not fade away in wispy tendrils when trying to remember them. In the dream, Susan walked up to me at a party and smiled. Standing face to face she assured me that she and the baby were fine. In the days following her death, I found great solace in this enduring message of reassurance. "But this wasn't a dream," Mike said, referring to

Well, you already knew that life isn't fair, right?" he said. "I guess death isn't either.

It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way—a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely you'll die that way---a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Its's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way--a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

The sage is not sorry for those that are living nor for those that die" (note 4). [Krishna says:]

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.