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Quotes About Death

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
~ Knut Hamsun
Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there is an additional five percent. Now that you are dead you are much in demand.
~ Kobo Abe
Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind.... Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.
~ Kobo Abe
The smell of poison and death clings to any stranger, and people have become allergic to outsiders without realizing it.
~ Kobo Abe
Tôi không thích máu vì nó gi?t ch?t trí t??ng t??ng.
~ Koji Suzuki
Puesto que el que contempla con sus ojos la belleza, no es ya tributario de la muerte, como dice Platen, sino de la Naturaleza, cuya belleza ha comprendido. Y si sus ojos sirven realmente para ver, llegará a ser, inexcusablemente, naturalista.
~ Konrad Lorenz
Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living.
~ Koran
I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.
~ Koushun Takami
Yes, I'm going to die with him. I'm going to die for the sake of Hiroki's love for me and my foolishness.
~ Koushun Takami
Para entonces ya estaba muerta. En realidad, puede que llevara muerta mucho tiempo. Físicamente, solo unos segundos; mentalmente toda una vida.
~ Koushun Takami
Para entonces ya estaba muerta. En realidad, puede que llevara muerta mucho tiempo. Físicamente, solo unos segundo; mentalmente toda una vida.
~ Koushun Takami
By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.
~ Koushun Takami
Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.
~ Koushun Takami
Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building. And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.
~ Koushun Takami
She orders everyone to their feet & to their drink & to the junction where they can hold their love loves in a place of honor & delight. ... Celebrate the life that was before the death & what it gave you, & what you have even now.
~ Kris Radish
Death...does this to people. It slaps the living upside the head and it makes us ponder and exchange events and feelings that might stay hidden.
~ Kris Radish
This dying & grief stuff knows no boundaries. It doesn't matter if the pain of loss is for a baby, an elderly parent, someone who drops dead at 30, the sorrow & grief doesn't change because of age.
~ Kris Radish
I have tried very hard over the years to let you know how much I love you, & how I have treasured your place in my life. I choose no formal service because I know that death does not erase my memory in your life, & I suspect that you will not be gone from my lingering spirit either. ... Celebrate! I say! Life, death, living and this process of dying that parallels our lives every single moment.
~ Kris Radish
Stop smiling. Every time you smile, an angel dies.
~ Kristan Higgins
my phone rings. I sense my hard-won optimism is about to get a smackdown. The Angel of Death, also known as my mother, Lenore Tate, long-suffering widow and professional pessimist.
~ Kristan Higgins
WAKE UP around three in the morning, knowing immediately that Colonel has died.
~ Kristan Higgins
something worse than death awaited all who remained: loss of free will. To give up would have been to dishonour those who had perished fighting for the good of all the lands. In their deaths we found the spirit and courage to go on. It gave us new purpose.
~ Kristen Britain
Karigan?" Estral said. "What do you see?" Death and gods and duty, she thought.
~ Kristen Britain
Between the 'death bridge' and our little chat with the Queen of the Damned, I've decided I should carry a gun at all times; whether it's to defend myself or to put myself out of my own misery," Carmen rambled on nervously. "It's a win-win situation, really.
~ Kristen Day