Quotes About Death

You're gonna have to explain all this shit to me, Frank. You don't just tell a guy he's dead and get him to throw a stiff into the river for you and then we fuck off for donuts.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame.

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'dAnd the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still

I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.

But I being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, 'Alas! All things that have been born were born to die, And flesh (which Death mows down to hay) is grass; You've pass'd your youth not so unpleasantly, And if you had it o'er again—'t would pass— So thank your stars that matters are no worse, And read your Bible, sir, and mind your purse.

It is not with earth, though I must till it, I feel at war..but I may not profit of what it bears of beauty,untoiling, Nor gratify my thousands swelling thoughts with knowledge, Nor allay my thousand fears of death and life.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?

For thirty pence he did my death devise,Who at three hundred did the ointment prize.

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today!

On December 1, 1947, the Great Beast died, aged seventy-two.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death.

Dead rats don't squeak.

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

La muerte es tan... definitiva! Mientras que la vida está llena de posibilidades

I never win anything," Dolorous Edd complained. "The gods always smiled on Watt, though. When the wildlings knocked him off the Bridge of Skulls, somehow he landed in a nice depp proof of water. How lucky was that, missing all those rocks?" "Was it a long fall?" Green wanted to know. "Did landing in the pool of water save his life?" "No," said Dolorous Edd. "He was dead already, from that axe in his head. Still, it was pretty lucky, missing the rocks.