Quotes About Death

The only way to ensure that Red Army recruits did not desert or run away, Trotsky had concluded, was to mount machine-guns in their rear and shoot any who failed to advance against the enemy. This was the choice he offered: possible death in the front or certain death in the rear. 'We must put an end once and for all', he sneered with a characteristically caustic turn of phrase, 'to the papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life.

al que no le importa morir no le asusta quitar la vida a otro.

Women aged fifteen through forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.

Where once there had been life, now was death. And out of death, thus, was life sustained. And in that bloody compact, both the living and the dead were joined in a loop as ancient and immutable as the moon that arced above them.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

What happens if a car comes? We die.

Todo tuvo perfecto sentido, y al mismo tiempo, nada parecía tener sentido en absoluto. Jamie Sullivan tenía leucemia... Jaime, la dulce Jamie, se estaba muriendo... Mi Jamie...

If you weren't going to tell me, why did you bring me down here? So I could watch you die? No, sweetie. Just the opposite. He rolled his head to face her. I asked you to come so I could watch you live.

Geen drenkeling zal ooit weten welke waterdruppel hem zijn laatste adem benam...

Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. "I'm dying, Landon.

I don't want to die. The last thing I want to do is go in a wrestling ring with a bunch of people watching. I'd rather it be somewhere high up on a mountain. I don't need any fans there for that.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

I think the demise of a marriage is like a death, and there is a mourning that goes with it. It's devastating.

The nature of most Covid-19 deaths, in hospital or a care home away from family and friends, has made it worse for the people they leave behind. In the absence of the traditional rites and rituals of funeral and mourning - the opportunity to just share a hug - the process of bereavement has been made even harder to bear.

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation.

Unless they've had some experience with it, the hospice is still a mystery to most people. Because hospice deals with death, people tend not to talk about it.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

In 1990 I had a nasty car accident and in 1994 my husband Ron Edgeworth died of motor neurone disease.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

It is natural to die as to be born.