Death Quotes - Page 109

Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.

Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive.

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

I would say that there are a lot of people who currently disagree with the death penalty, I just hope that it's never one of their family members that is killed, because then they will probably change their mind on capital punishment.

Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it.

My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home.

Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow.

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.