Quotes About Death

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Because death's an insult anytime. When somebody hurries it along, that's the biggest insult of all.

You're a dead man, Roarke. You don't know it, but you've already stopped breathing. The walking dead. And when you finally realize you're dead, and drop to the ground and you're laying there, I'm going to step over your cold, lifeless body, open the doors of that department store you call a closet, and I torch it. Eve Dallas

The jackal rips out the hare's bowels, but the world rolls on.

Von allen Abenteuern ist Selbstmord das literarischste, mehr noch als Mord.

He would never want to diminish that event, that blow. It was nothing less than a calamity. It has shrunk his world, turned him into a prisoner. But escaping death ought to have shaken him up, opened windows inside him, renewed his sense of the preciousness of life. It has done nothing of the sort. He is trapped with the same old self as before , only greyer and drearier. Enough to drive one to drink.

Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv ist, ob der Bürger am Leben oder tot ist.

Aber vielleicht ist das die Natur des Todes, dass uns alles an ihm, jedes letzte Ding, unpassend erscheint.

When death cuts all other links, there remains the name. Baptism: the union of a soul with a name, the name it will carry into eternity.

if Jesus had stooped to play politics he might have become a key man in Roman Judea, a big operator. It was because he was indifferent to politics, and made his indifference clear, that he was liquidated. How to live one's life outside politics, and one's death too: that was the example he set for his followers.

A uno le gustaría seguir sintiendo cierto respeto por cualquier persona que prefiere la muerte al deshonor

Entonces, será que lo ha asumido por sí mismo. Por la idea que tiene del mundo, un mundo en el que los hombres no emplean palas para golpear cadáveres y darles una forma más conveniente para su posterior procesamiento

Sólo es una cuestión de edad, de ciclos de deseo y de apatía de un cuerpo que lentamente se enfría y muere. Cuando era joven el simple olor de una mujer me excitaba: ahora solo la más dulce, la más joven, la más reciente tiene ese poder. Cualquier día de estos serán jovencitos. Esperando los bárbaros

No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.

You would have made a fine warrior, you know that? I am one. Death is my enemy. Yeah, it is, isn't it. God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter… like him. Your scalpel's your dagger. Yup.

And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.

Wait, Butch said, thinking about the glymera. Marissa's mated now, right? I mean, even if I die, she will have had a mate right? Death wish, V said under his breath. Fucking Death Wish Boy we got over here. The Scribe Virgin seemed flat-out amazed I should kill you now.

End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for a home.

If you've bullshitted me, angel, I'm going to kill you." The other male rolled his eyes. "I'm already dead, idiot.

The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine

We're separated, but not lost or truly apart. Do not mourn me, my love. I have not died. . . .

His big body was nothing but death waiting for a place to happen.

Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?" The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake." "What book?" "It's The Shadow Death Lexicon." "Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.