Death Quotes

Golden bars make no less a prisonthan a coffin on a hill.And in caged reformation,one wanders aimless still.The rafters now a recollectionof sacred suppression.How the morning dawnstrikes mourning confession.Now Death yields a harvestof the living masses.We walk toward its pathno earthly power surpasses.

~ Craig Froman

They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in a burst. They shot to kill him. He was dying when I got to him, sprawled and twisted away from his skis that stuck up out of the snow, his chest half shot away. I took his head in my arms and spoke to him, but he never answered me; only in a way he answered my love for him, crying out through the silent wreck and tumult of his mind as consciousness lapsed, in the unspoken tongue, once, clearly, 'Arek!' Then no more. I held him, crouching there in the snow, while he died. They let me do that. Then they made me get up, and took me off one way and him another, I going to prison and he into the dark.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die.” I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

~ David Benioff

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

~ Lorrie Moore

Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.

~ Anthony Liccione

There is no escape from me, not even in death.

~ Conn Iggulden

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

~ H.m. Forester

Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Do not be afraid to fall, be afraid to to land... For no one has ever died from falling they have died from landing instantaneously.

~ Haileigh Horton

To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death.

~ Steven Magee

At the conclusion of Hollywood disaster movies and epics, time moves backward, piecing together like a jigsaw the elements that had come apart. The Titanic resumes its journey; Russell Crowe is reunited with his murdered wife and son. It's not a happy ending; it's a convention created for the purposes of an impossible sense of uplift at the end of death and tragedy: the happy beginning. Technology makes Hades unnecessary.

~ Amit Chaudhuri

I could just like down, right here, and let the sand cover me like a blanket. But my legs, clumsy as they've become, keep stumbling forward on their own. I'm not frightened and I'm not sorry. Not even a little bit. Nikko and I shared this fate, six years apart. We both walked into the desert, and we will both have died out here, under the wide open sky. At this moment, I feel closer to him than I have in years. Maybe that's what Endd meant when she said that none of us are ever truly alone.

~ Joaquin Lowe

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

~ Dean Koontz

Death doesn’t end our devotion. It only makes it stronger.

~ James W. Bodden

The end result of adultery and fornication is spiritual and even physical death.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

~ George R.r. Martin

An answer is always a form of death.

~ John Fowles

The end is everything.

~ Arthur K. Flam

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~ James Patterson

RIP, to those that are no longer here in Body, for they give our minds a lesson in eternity...

~ C. Barnett Ii

Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can’t remember me.

~ Kristin Hannah

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!-Dr. Honma

~ Osamu Tezuka

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... (Mr. Arcularis)

~ Conrad Aiken

Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.

~ Neil Gaiman

You drive, walk, eat, look at television, read, and all the while, beyond you and the cozy circle created by your lady around herself and you, like the natural emanations of stars, other lives circle yours, seeds still winged and wind-borne, looking for sympathetic soil. You feel the juices and solids of your body in attempted rearrangement, or, more disturbing, making an effort to create a stillness that approximates death, beyond which the body does become soil, receptive to all wind-borne seeds. In a not especially prolonged stillness, as though no chances could be taken that you might decide to become perpetual motion, words fall out of the air, a random fall from which you might be tempted to make selection, and as you do not move, cannot, a string of words falls onto you, and from you, onto the paper: winter rye greening up, smoothing the old brown earth with a fine new plane: Carpenter Rye, neighbor.

~ Coleman Dowell

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

~ Rachel Caine

The souls of men are not measured by what they have done, but by what they leave behind.

~ Anonymous

In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.

~ Ron Brackin

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well. Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

~ Neil Gaiman

Death twitches my ear. Live he says I am coming.

~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

~ Euripides

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

~ Harry S. Truman

As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

~ George Bernard Shaw

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

~ John Oxenham

As men we are all equal in the presence of death.

~ Publilius Syrus

At last God caught his eye.

~ Harry Secombe

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

~ Thomas Wolfe