Quotes About Death

Death itself was always quick, Raphael reflected, staring off at the distant horizon. It is the survivors who feel pain the longest.

I vivi rimasero a casa, infestando il mondo dei morti come fantasmi.

In the old world, death had led to endless philosophical ruminations and spawned religions, but in Bitworld it led to one-star ratings from furious bereaved and threats of class-action lawsuits.

Seeing what had happened to Memmie, he had suffered a stroke that had immediately rendered him aphasic. Swelling of the brain killed him an hour later. The Diggers buried him and Memmie together in the place where they had fallen.

Pain scares him, death doesn't especially (he never expected to live so long!), but chaos, and the feeling that the world is not behaving according to rational laws, put him into the same state of animal terror as a dog who's being dissected alive but cannot understand why.

Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take.

Everybody is doing everything for themselves…. When you understand that this is true even about dying, you will never fear dying again.

With you, it seems to be merely a question of time. The legality of self-destruction—the "rightness" or "wrongness" of it—seems to have much to do with how quickly the deed is done, as well as who is doing it. The faster the death, the more "wrong" it seems to be. The slower the death, the more it slips into "okayness.

It is no more immoral to kill yourself quickly than it is to kill yourself slowly.

Judge not, then, the karmic path walked by another. Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. Call not a thing calamity, nor joyous event, until you decide, or witness, how it is used. For is a death a calamity if it saves the lives of thousands? And is a life a joyous event if it has caused nothing but grief? Yet even this you should not judge, but keep always your own counsel, and allow others theirs.

Fear and guilt, I say again, are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Yet do not confuse the one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

You have created a society in which it is very not okay to want to die—very not okay to be very okay with death.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

Doc, I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living, and I want to put this bayonet through my stomach

I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter.

Honor? What do you care about honor? Honor gets people killed!' 'At least they die for something,' I say, and he doesn't protest further.

I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living.

I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living.

Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole.

If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.

Most places in the universe will kill life instantly—instantly! People say "Oh, the forces of nature are just right for life." Excuse me. Just look at the volume of the universe where you can't live. You will die instantly.

On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.