Death Quotes

Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent death still filled her with horror.

~ Vasily Grossman

Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

~ Philip Plait

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.

~ Floyd C. Forsberg

When I was a kid I worried that when I woke up, I'd find my family having breakfast with my doppelgänger. We would fight to the death, and then my family would peacefully finish breakfast.

~ Fran Krause

It's like I'm dreaming of the imaginary friend Katie and I had when we were little. She'd been so real to us as kids. We each remembered Anna, that's what we'd called her, just like we remembered bits of our parents. But now, in this dreamscape of Paradise Lost, our imaginary third twin has all grown up.

~ Beatrice Rose Roberts

The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.

~ Emily M. Danforth

...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.

~ Fannie Flagg

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

~ Orrin Woodward

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Death in love is the beginning of a eternal life ! Just make your soul free .

~ Arash Pakravesh

I’m dying twice as fastas any other Americanbetween eighteen and thirty-fiveThis disturbs me,but I try not to show it in public.

~ Essex Hemphill

The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

But thought’s the slave of life, and life time’s fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,But that the earthy and cold hand of deathLies on my tongue

~ William Shakespeare

O fairest of all creation, last and bestOf all God's works, creature in whom excelledWhatever can to sight or thought be formed,Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote?

~ John Milton

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

~ Jayme K.

Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it may be, will answer, “What becomes of myself if all that I love in my heart and my spirit must die, that my life may be saved?” And are not almost all the morals, and heroism, and virtue of man summed up in that single choice?

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your name.

~ T. Archman

Whether you live a healthy or a toxic lifestyle, the end result will always be death.

~ Steven Magee

The day is crisp and clear, almost like every other morning he's taken the same walk in the snow, hiking to the forest and back.

~ M.c. Frank

This is the place where death rejoices to help those who live. It's written somewhere in every morgue I've ever been in. Nice way of looking at it, isn't it?

~ Jane Casey

Think about death being inevitable, and unpredictable, exempt from the law of averages. Everyone has a turn, and no one knows when.

~ Pawan Mishra

They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Are you brave enough to live your DASH: birth year – death year?

~ Andrea T Goeglein

He told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.

~ Jonas Jonasson

The most ironic thing was that, the thing she valued the most was freedom. For according to her, happiness can never occur in bondage. In spite of the fact that death will set her free from all humanly bondages, she wanted to live, let life be the only bondage she was tied with. She wanted it. That one single bondage, to live boundlessly.

~ Pradnya Chabbi

To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The only people who fear death are the ones who haven't lived.

~ Gemma Malley

For those who believe in the resurrection, death is inconsequential. In the resurrection, those that were dead live, and those who live believe they shall never die.

~ Emily Thorne

I think the bravest people are not the ones brave enough to die. But the ones brave enough to live.And living is different with surviving.

~ Audrey Celia

When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.

~ D.e. Navarro

Life and Death took a break,weary from their burdensome role.Nobody lived or died that day.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Until you find a cause you can die for, you are not worthy to live.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Life depends on, how much you're alive

~ Simone Damgaard

Why do you live?Because I have something worth living for.

~ J.k. Rowling

Better a live dog than a dead lion.

~ Paul Hoffman

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.

~ Paul Hoffman