Death Quotes - Page 60

Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office.

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.

Death is Life's high meed.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)

Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.