Quotes About Death

The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

A cup to the dead already, - Hurrah for the next that dies.

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

Sleep - kinsman thou to death and trance and madness.

Only the young die good.

Paradise — I see flowers from the cottage where I lie.

When I was young I used to think the only certain thing about life was that I should one day die. Now I think the only certain thing about life is that there is no such thing as death.

Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

Two or three times it occurred to Gjorg that all these men had killed, and that each had his story. But those stories were locked deep within them. It was not just chance that in the glow of the fire their mouths, and even more their jaws, looked as if they had the shape of certain antique locks.

Cuervos sobre la llanura sembrada de muertos, como en las viejas baladas.

afirmaban que el Apocalipsis no era sino el día en que los sueños saldrían de la cárcel del dormir, pues la resurrección de los muertos que la gente concibe de forma trivial y metafísica, se produciría precisamente de ese modo. ¿No eran acaso los sueños mensajes enviados por ellos? Esta reivindicación secular de los muertos, este ruego, lamento, protesta, llámese como se quiera, será un día tomada en cuenta.

E gjendur per here te pare midis nje dendesie mashkullimi te rrezikshem,te gjithe kaloree e,njekohesisht,te fejuar te vdekjes,ka rene ne dashuri mekshem e me ngut me ta,si njeriu qe do te mbushe zbrazetine e ardhshme,te paskaj...

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

Velika, prava ljubav pokaza?e svoju punu snagu samo onda ako uspije da od dvoje ljubavnika, slabih ljudi, na?ini stvorenja koja se ne boje ni promjena, ni nesre?a, ni rastanaka, ni bolesti, ni života ni smrti.

Ne treba mene žaliti. Jer svi mi umiremo samo jednom, a veliki ljudi po dva puta; jednom kad ih nestane sa zemlje, a drugi put kad propadne njihova zadužbina.

Bana hiç ac?may?n… Biz, s?radan insanlar, yaln?z bir sefer ölürüz. Ama büyük adamlar iki sefer ölürler. Birinci sefer bu dünyay? b?rak?p göçtükleri, ikinci sefer de b?rakt?klar? eserler, y?k?l?p kayboldu?u zaman.

There is no need to feel sorry for me. For all of us die only once, whereas great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their lifework disappears.

Ho?e li umreti? —pitala je uplašeno mla?a sestra stariju. — Ne?e ako uspemo da joj na vreme damo dovoljnu koli?inu alkohola odgovorila znala?ki starija.

all of us die only once, whereas great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their lifework disappears.

lice pobjednika je kao ruža, ali lice pobje?enoga je kao grobljanska zemlja, od koje svatko bježi i glavu okre?e.

And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together.