Death Quotes

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Jean Cocteau

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Terry Pratchett

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Stephen King

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

Jodi Picoult

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H. G. Wells

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Eric Hoffer

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Eric Hoffer

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Charles Caleb Colton

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Samuel Butler

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Isabelle Adjani

looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.

Orson Scott Card

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bianca Jagger

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

John Hodgman

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Francoise Sagan

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

Michel Aoun

That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said she was a quiet-tempered lady, and the housekeeper had said it was the common lot, and the butler had said who'd have thought it, and the housemaid had said she couldn't hardly believe it, and the footman had said it seemed exactly like a dream, they had quite worn the subject out, and began to think their mourning was wearing rusty too.

Charles Dickens

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.

Neil Gaiman

Everything that gets born dies.

Morrie Schwartz

The monster nevers dies.

Stephen King