Quotes About Death

He lingered until the 21st of July, 1796, when he expired. The interest which the death of Burns excited was intense. All differences were forgotten; his genius only was thought of. On the 26th of the same month he was conveyed to the grave, followed by about ten thousand individuals of all ranks, many of whom had come from distant parts of the country to witness the solemnity. He was interred with military honors by the Dumfries volunteers, to which body he had belonged.

Mie love ys dedde,Gon to hys death-bedde,Al under the wyllowe-tree.

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

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Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'

The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.

I didn't meet my father until he was 30, and he died nine months after that.

I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

I'm alone. I'm going to end up dying alone.

Death is always sad, but it's also inevitable

Ik begrijp dat liefde en verdriet hand in hand gaan, want de een kan niet bestaan zonder de ander, maar toch vraag ik mij wel eens af of het allemaal wel eerlijk is. Een man zou moeten sterven zoals hij heeft geleefd, vind ik. In zijn laatste ogenblikken moet hij omgeven en getroost worden door diegenen van wie hij altijd heeft gehouden.

cold that I'm shivering. I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't afraid. I don't want to die, and thanks to my parents—my

A mi modo de entender, todo hombre debería morir como ha vivido; en sus últimos momentos, debería estar rodeado y reconfortado por aquellas personas a las que siempre ha querido.

Don't say it's not really so bad. Because it is. Death is awful, demonic. If you think your task as comforter is to tell me that really, all things considered, it's not so bad, you do not sit with me in my grief but place yourself off in the distance away from me. Over there, you are of no help.

IT'S so WRONG, so profoundly wrong, for a child to die before its parents. It's hard enough to bury our parents. But that we expect. Our parents belong to our past, our children belong to our future. We do not visualize our future without them. How can I bury my son, my future, one of the next in line? He was meant to bury me!