13,737 Quotes About Death

Sister, in this country a Negro is always about to get killed, so that ain't nothing. But you tell your husband that a black man was ready to lay down his life for you. That's all.

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

The emptiness of life can only be revealed by the glory of Heaven

If the devil has a pitchfork and the grim reaper has a scythe, agriculture must be a huge industry in the underworld.

Maybe we will die far apart.The news will come screaming,or someone will just hint at itand go away, leaving alone the one left behind. . .And the one left behind will be lost in the crowd.I mean, that's life. . .

The beaches were overrun with jellyfish these days, the monstrous red stinging kind that that looked like wounds along the shoreline.

The Farmer’s Almanac promised a cold winter. The coldest in decades. Andrew grinned, unaware of how hideously ugly it made him. Let the winter be record breaking. The year would be marked in infamy and not for the weather alone. He could imagine the headlines, mentioning it as the winter of death, as his spree was just beginning. It would put the town on the map.

A middleage friend of the poet's mother said: "They're killing off all our good men: I tell ya, a black man Today speaks his piece at the risk of losing his life.

Y todavía los que no murieron bajo las chozas ni se rajaron los huesos bajo los árboles ni se desangraron bajo las cuevas, ciegos de miedo y de ira acabaron despedazándose entre sí. Los pocos que no sufrieron quebranto, como recuerdo de la simpleza de sus corazones, se transformaron en monos.