Death Quotes
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"We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto."
Quote by -Chaim Potok
"> Why does everything that lives have to die? < So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious."
Quote by -Chaim Potok
"My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."
Quote by -Ben Carson
"My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my grandfather did to him."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times."
Quote by -Dean Smith
“Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
Quote by -Zhuangzi
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Quote by -Xenophon
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
Quote by -Walker Percy
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
Quote by -Wallace Stevens
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.
Quote by -Wallace Stevens
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Quote by -Walter Benjamin
What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about
Quote by -Walter Benjamin
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
Quote by -Wendell Berry
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Quote by -William Faulkner
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
Quote by -William Faulkner
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Quote by -William Gibson
Sure I arn't a cabbage, that if you pull it out of the ground it must die.
Quote by -William Godwin
Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
Quote by -William Godwin
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding
I aint dead, I aint done, I ain't scared, I aint run, no matter what, no matter what, Still I stand
Quote by -Clifford Joseph Harris Jr