Death Quotes

Kittridge closed his eyes. So, the end. It would happen instantaneously, a painless departure, quicker than thought. he felt the presence of his body one last time: the taste of air in his lungs, the blood surging in his veins, the drumlike beating of his heart. The bomb was dropping toward them."I've got you," he said, hugging Tim fiercely; and again, over and over, so that the boy would be hearing these words. "I've got you, I've got you, I've got you, I've got you.

Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?

The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.

Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I’m still alive.

Before the Apocalypse, the closest I'd gotten to death was buying steaks at the supermarket.

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

Cormac McCarthy

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.

Agatha Christie

Cancer doesn’t give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will.

A.S. King

You die in the middle of your life.

Because really, what do you have to lose? Your life? That's no big deal, I promise you. When you find out you might die, you're finally allowed to live like you never have before. If you lose your life while living the shit out of it, then you've done the best you could, and you shouldn't worry about death. When you're dead, you can't screw up. But while you're here, all you have are a few things to call your own. You have your integrity, your family, and your hope for the future. These are important and you should keep them somewhere safe where you'll remember them.

So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that, a failure of the imagination? Are you in denial? This is not wholly true; we continue in the same way as before but in parenthesis. My thinking has switched its grammar. The present continuous is its single operational tense. Uncertainty is our present and our future.

You are so high in the tree.If you jumpyou will live a full lifewhile falling.You will get marriedto a hummingbirdand raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancerin mid-air. I will not lie. It will be painful. You are a brave little boyor girl.

Zachary Schomburg

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

Christopher Lasch

E.M. Ashford: And death shall be no more" comma "death, thou shalt die." Nothing but a breath, a comma separates life from life everlasting.E.M. Ashford: Very simple, really. With the original punctuation restored Death is no longer something to act out on a stage with exclamation marks. It is a comma. A pause.E.M. Ashford: In this way, the uncompromising way one learns something from the poem, wouldn't you say? Life, death, soul, God, past present. Not insuperable barriers. Not semi-colons. Just a comma.

According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.

According to accepted newspaper clichés, we all go down fighting. The other day I even read that an 18-month-old baby had died after a long battle with cancer. That has become the mandatory phrase for all who expire, disease-ridden. They battled valiantly; they lost. When I finally depart I hope somebody will write, instead, that I died after a long battle with life.

I am reminded of an image...that living with a terminal disease is like walking on a tightrope over an insanely scary abyss. But that living without disease is also like walking on a tightrope over an insanely scary abyss, only with some fog or cloud cover obscuring the depths a bit more -- sometimes the wind blowing it off a little, sometimes a nice dense cover.

People's most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result.

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

T.A. Webb

Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves.

I choose to believe that my father is still alive, that he has survived death, outlived us all, and possesses the soul that goes on and lives forever; We just cannot see him yet, for we have not caught up with him. our time will come just as his did. and no matter how woeful and lost I was when he passed away, I know I will be glad to go to a place where I can see him, and know he is okay and happy. It’s just not my time yet and there is no way of knowing if any of it is true." - Jane Adams

You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.

Darnell Lamont Walker

live a death, die a death

Whether vampires should have been declared ‘alive’ and full citizens of the United States of America was one of the big debates ranking right up there with gun rights and abortion. In a way all of them are about life and death—defining what life is, and what it isn’t, and how far we’ll go to protect, or take, it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Meg Cabot

A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.

Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity. Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while alive, and fear of death dissolves. Fear of death is fear of the Unknown. Realize the Wonder, the Eternal Unknowability of the Totality of Existence, and fear of death is transcended. If happiness or freedom depends on the Answer to the Question, then there can be no happiness or freedom. The Question cannot be satisfactorily or finally Answered. For one who abides at Infinity, happy and free, at ease with his Ultimate Ignorance, the Question and the Answer are equally unnecessary. What began will come to an end. What is Wonderful is not threatened. The Process of the Totality of Existence is Transcendental and Eternal. Only a fraction of the Whole can pass away in any moment, since only a fraction of the Whole appears in any moment. Therefore, the Heart Itself is always already Full of Wonder and Love. "I" is the body-mind, the fraction of the Whole that is now appearing and will soon disappear. "I" must be surrendered to the Heart, to the Whole, which is Infinity, Wonder, and Love.

Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death.

Catherynne M. Valente

I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children's laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming - the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I don't want to put my life in the hands of any doctor who believes in reincarnation. Give me a good old-fashioned American doc who'll make sure you live to pay that bill.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.

When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.

Georgette Heyer

I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

Anonymous

Being of sound mind I spent every cent I ever had.

Anonymous

If life was fair Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Italian proverb

No matter how rich you become how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

If you don't go to people's funerals they won't come to yours.

Anonymous

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Margaret Miller

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.

Malcolm Muggeridge

If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.

M. A. Perlstein

I know a man who gave up smoking drinking sex and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

If anything happens to me tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Garrison Keillor

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.

For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.

Anonymous

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go they go!

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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