Best 9776 quotes in «death quotes» category

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.

I have no more cheap morals to draw from all this death.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

I just do it for the niggas that's tryna see a million fo' they die

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.

I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.

I know thou art gone to the home of thy rest-- Then why should my soul be so sad? I know thou art gone where the weary are blest, And the mourner looks up, and is glad; I know thou hast drank of the Lethe that flows In a land where they do not forget, That sheds over memory only repose, And takes from it only regret.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

I like people who can't die in their bed.

I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

I'll sleep well tonight

I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.

I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

I'm not ready to die. Period. To begin with, I cannot imagine a future without me in it. Can't do it.

I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.