Quotes About Death

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

think of it this way, he said It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?

of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their dead. It didnt take long for ethics to be crushed by greed. Unwinding became big business, and people let it happen

Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.

Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. We

How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"—and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?

Death, as they say, doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one.

Luck is for losers. You have history on your side. You have gravity. You have authority. You are the Granddame of Death.

You don't so much sleep as borrow eight hours from death.

Wish me luck, dear.' 'I won't do that.' And when Marie looked to Anastasia for an explanation, the girl smiled and said, 'Luck is for losers. You have history on your side. You have gravity, You have authority. You are the Granddame of Death.' And then she added, 'Your Excellency.

My friend, life can often be most brutal and unfair. Death is the same.

Shouldn't those who were born to expect death be the sole subjects of gleaning?" went the popular wisdom. But it was bigotry masquerading as wisdom. Selfishness posing as enlightenment.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human.

The idea of his life ending was not much of a problem for him. In fact, it had become an oddly familiar theme. He had died so many times, and in so many ways, he was used to it. It held no more terror for him than falling asleep – which was often worse, because when he slept, he had nightmares. At least being deadish was a dreamless state, and the only difference between being deadish and being dead was the length of time involved.

There are worse things than being robbed... I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. ...worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.

The most successful salesperson was offering a product called Touch of Quietude, which sounded more like a feminine hygiene product than a death delivery system.

In the mortal age, death could not be bargained with. It had to be the same for scythes.

You've hit the nail on the head, Anastasia. That's exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.

A scythe could share their bed with anyone, but their life with no one.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can keep us if we ever lose that.

they were called scythes rather than reapers, because they were not the ones who killed; they were merely the tool that society used to bring fair-handed death to the world.

Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency.

All he ever wanted was a comfortable chair and a place in history. Well, he was robbed of one and died in the other.

It began the night we died on the Kamikaze.