Death Quotes - Page 69

This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

You can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake. -L (from Death Note)

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.

I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, forget it.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.