Quotes About Death

It was poisonous, unnatural to let the dead go with a mere whimpering, a slight murmur, a rose bouquet of good taste. Good taste was out of place in the company of death, death itself was the essence of bad taste. And there must be much rage and saliva in its presence. The body must move and throw itself about, the eyes must roll, the hands should have no peace, and the throat should release all the yearning, despair and outrage that accompany the stupidity of loss.

The price of wealth, historically, has been blood, annihilation, death, and despair.

More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's a ambulance. Today it's a hearse.

Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him to it.

How'd you get rid of her?' 'Killed her. Then I killed the me that killed her.' 'Who's left?' 'Me.

Consider another consequence of the blatant, violent uses to which foreignness is put—ethnic cleansing. We would be not merely remiss but irrelevant if we did not address the doom currently faced by millions of people reduced to animal, insect, or polluted status by nations with unmitigated, unrepentant power to decide who is a stranger and whether they live or die at, or far from, home.

Quando le cose morte tornano in vita, fanno sempre male.

Todo lo que buscan, tío, es su propio sufrimiento. Pídeles que mueran por ti y serán tuyas para toda la vida.

No creían que la muerte fuese un accidente: la vida tal vez lo fuera, pero la muerte era deliberada.

Some folks want to live forever. Some don't. I believe they decide on it anyway. People die when they want to and if they want to.

They did not believe death was accidental-life might be, but death was deliberate. They did not believe Nature was ever askew-only inconvenient...The purpose of evil was to survive it...

You can't take a life and walk off and leave it. Life is life. Precious. And the dead you kill is yours. They stay with you anyway, in your mind. So it's a better thing, a more better thing to have the bones right there with you wherever you go. That way, it frees up your mind.

We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.

Eran lo bastante viejas para encolerizarse donde y cuando quisieran, estaban lo bastante fatigadas para esperar sin angustia la muerte, lo bastante desvinculadas de la carne para aceptar la noción de dolor a la vez que ignoraban su presencia. Eran, de hecho y al fin, libres.

Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is you can't know in advance.

If Jesus is the Messiah, how could he be put to death?

When Christ died, we died with him. When Christ arose, we arose with him. When Christ was seated at the right hand of the Father, we were seated with him. In other words, we were made to function in union with Christ.

The disappearance of so many regimes so closely bound to a revolutionary narrative marked the death knell of a 200-year promise of radical progress.

Poles died in World War II; proportionately lower than the death rate in parts of Ukraine or among Jews, but a terrible figure notwithstanding. Yet there was a difference. For Poles, it was difficult to survive under German occupation, but in principle you could. For Jews it was possible to survive under German occupation—but in principle you could not.

Dead can't do us no harm,' said Effie. 'Seen plenty o' haints in my time. All on the playful side. None never done me harm. All my hurts and pains come from the livin'.

Clorinda fui, né sol qui spirto umano albergo in questa pianta rozza e dura, ma ciascun altro ancor, franco o pagano, che lassi i membri a piè de l'alte mura, astretto è qui da novo incanto e strano, non so s'io dica in corpo o in sepoltura.

Dreams don't have time. Neither does sleep, nor death. That's why it is sometimes good to wear a watch.

Anyways, I suddenly had an urge to put my watch on. Time or no time, I wanted some worldly security. That's what watches do: they keep us bound to this world. Dreams don't have time. Neither does sleep, nor death. That's why it is sometimes good to wear a watch.