Death Quotes

Finally, I will never forget stopping near a lovely young girl still strapped to her seat, breathing slightly. Her blouse was white, her slacks were blue. At the end of the trousers were two snow-white ankle bones where her feet used to be. I had never seen the whiteness of bones that are freshly exposed like that.

~ Laurence Gonzales

As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. “He tried to sit up,” Martz said. “I saw a huge triangular hole in his forehead and I told him to just lie still and that help was on the way, but it was too late for him.

~ Laurence Gonzales

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, that guy'snuts.out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

~ Charles Bukowski

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

~ Jacob M. Appel

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

~ Kristina Mcmorris

Carmen will always be free.

~ Prosper Mérimée

So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.

~ Iris Murdoch

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

~ Melina Marchetta

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky;The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,For thou must die.

~ George Herbert

How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

~ Dean Koontz

Seems like everything lead up to this dayand it's just like every day that's ever been.Sun goin' up and then the sunit goin' down.

~ Jerry Garcia

Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

A funeral is no place for secrets.

~ Mitch Albom

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

~ Charlotte Brontë

Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man he had known his whole life. These folk knew all about death. They killed their own livestock. They died from fevers, falls, or broken bones gone sour. Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Strangest problems of life seem clearing, but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?

~ Herman Melville

I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the book is tedious, it smells of the tomb, it has a rigor mortis about it; a serious fault, and yet a relatively small one, for the great defect of this book is you, reader. You want to live fast, to get to the end, and the book ambles along slowly; you like straight, solid narrative and a smooth style, but this book and my style are like a pair of drunks; they stagger to the right and to the left, they start and they stop, they mutter, they roar, they guffaw, they threaten the sky, they slip and fall...And fall! Unhappy leaves of my cypress tree, you had to fall, like everything else that is lovely and beautiful; if I had eyes, I would shed a tear of remembrance for you. And this is the great advantage in being dead, that if you have no mouth with which to laugh, neither have you eyes with which to cry.

~ Machado De Assis

I have faced death this night, and I have called his bluff.

~ Lucien Lacroix

This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.

~ Philippa Gregory

Jango danced, and the tune that he danced to was Death.

~ Cedric Nye

It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.

~ Jeff Abbott

She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Live life while you have it; the fact that you have it is highly improbable, the fact that you will lose it is guaranteed.

~ Philip Defranco

Marvin: – La necrofilia ce l’abbiamo sepolta dentro. Uno dei miei libri, Storia della tortura e della morte, parla delle atrocità che abbiamo commesso in nome della giustizia e della vendetta. Spesso erano peggiori dei crimini originali. L’uomo è un animale sanguinario.

~ Joe R. Lansdale

Eins var algengt hjá okkur ef spurt var um líðan einhvers manns: iss hann er feitur; en það þýddi að honum liði vel, eða einsog sagt mundi vera í Danmörku, að hann væri hamingjusamur. Ef einhverjum leið illa, þá var sagt sem svo: æ það hálfsér á honum; og væri sá nær dauða en lífi sem um var rætt, þá var sagt: æ það er í er í honum einhver lurða. Ef einhver var um það bil að verða ellidauður, þá var sagt: æjá hann er hættur að bleyta smjörið. Um þann sem lá banaleguna var sagt: já hann er nú að berja nestið auminginn. Um dauðvona ungling var sagt að það liti ekki út fyrir að hann ætti að kemba hærurnar.

~ Halldór Laxness

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

~ James Rozoff

She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hell, and she knew that there would never be anything that could quench those fires except death. Vanessa knew that Jango had become his own Grim Reaper.

~ Cedric Nye

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.

~ Jodi Picoult

Time owed an alliance to the undying.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead!

~ Antoni Omeihe

Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.

~ Kelly Moran

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

~ Katherine Paterson

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

~ Dan Brown

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...

~ Ray Bradbury

Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. Amazing. To feel you were a tiny living thing, sandwiched between two cliffs of darkness. How could they stand to be alive?

~ Terry Pratchett

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

~ Maya Angelou

I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too, he seemed to have died only yesterday -- nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time -- his death and her sorrow -- I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together -- I heard them together.

~ Joseph Conrad

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

~ Jim Butcher