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Quotes About Death

The one who is scared of dying is but a lost child looking for his home
~ Tchouang-tseu
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
~ Tecumseh
Never be born, never be died.
~ Ted Berrigan
Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent.
~ Ted Chiang
The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.
~ Ted Chiang
Death is uncommon, fortunately, because we are durable, and fatal mishaps are rare, but it makes difficult the study of anatomy, especially since many of the accidents serious enough to cause death leave the deceased's remains too damaged for study.
~ Ted Chiang
Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent. That was something that frightened her: the possibility that she was losing her mind. She was certainly losing her clarity of thought, and that came pretty close.
~ Ted Chiang
It's an outrageous injustice that he was the one to die. He'd nothing to do with this affair." "It's always that way, sir. Come on, let's tend to that hand of yours.
~ Ted Chiang
In this way Hassan lived the happiest of lives until he was overtaken by death, breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.
~ Ted Chiang
when Neil finally bled to death, he was truly worthy of salvation. And God sent him to Hell anyway. Ethan
~ Ted Chiang
Until he was taken over by death. Breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.
~ Ted Chiang
So minutes later, when Neil finally bled to death, he was truly worthy of salvation. And God sent him to Hell anyway.
~ Ted Chiang
The world's bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can't wait to die.
~ Ted Dekker
In living we die, in dying we live.
~ Ted Dekker
He was a simple honest man. He never strayed, He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid. And when he passed away his insurance was denied, Because he never lived, they claimed he never died.
~ Ted Gup
I didn't sob, I didn't wail, I didn't whimper... because those are all things that dead people cannot do.
~ Ted Heller
He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.
~ Ted Hughes
I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.
~ Ted Hughes
Surviving" There are days when the fear of death is as ubiquitous as light. It illuminates everything. Without it, I might not have noticed this ladybird beetle, bright as a drop of blood on the window's white sill. Her head no bigger than a period, her eyes like needle points, she has stopped for a moment to rest, knees locked, wing covers hiding the delicate lace of her wings. As the fear of death, so attentive to everything living, comes near her, the tiny antennae stop moving.
~ Ted Kooser
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.166
~ Ted Widmer
First, the panic had struck a death blow at his presidency. Now the slavery debate was turning acrimonious, making normal politics impossible.
~ Ted Widmer
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd":
~ Ted Widmer
There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.
~ Tehmina Durrani
They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'
~ Geoffrey Rush