13,737 Quotes About Death

An ill heart, like a body, has its more comfortable days, and then its days of pain, its long relapse, when rallying requires more effort than to dissolve life, and death looks choiceless.

You can't escape an assasin," He leaned forward, shadows swallowing his eyes. "Hangings, bumbling bureaucrats, dishonest crewman, jail - those you can talk your way out of, you try hard enough. But this kind of death is the is the only kind of death.

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

I wanted to listen to him, but I did not want to answer now. That strange responsibility we feel towards others when they speak, to offer them the solace of any answer. Poor humans! And anyway he had not asked a question. He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us.

Roland was one of the lucky hedonists to survive El Diablo which swooped in to kill so many of themSo many deaths ruined any sense of nostalgia, sadly, remembering the past also meantRemembering theDead

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

DEATHA woman who dreams of deathIs sitting in her room aloneWhile the clouds and the starsThat once saw the quiet fumesOf warReach out to grasp one anotherAnd stifle that fireBut the distinct formsAnd multitudesIn blursTakeoff racing in the earthen boundariesNever counting The parts they killedAs they were air-drivenWithin the velvet cores of her galaxy

There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah," he said. "There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be.