Death Quotes - I carry death in my left pocket
“Weeping
is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when
it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”
―
Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
“I
wish...I wish I were dead...”
“And
what use would that be to anyone?”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Men
should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
―
Gloria Steinem
“I
am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had
never been.”
―
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“The
idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find
myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in
to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”
―
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
“The
funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else
into perspective.”
―
James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
“Death
must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving
above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow.
To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
“No
man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a
part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as
well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine
own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and
therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
―
John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
“Delaying
death is one of my favorite hobbies”
―
Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
“I
told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in
hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they
didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to
him when he died.”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Would
it hurt to die?”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“They
tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is
wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which
every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
―
Arthur Schopenhauer
“We
who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
“Reality
means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“It
seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or
action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings
no pleasure to the world.”
―
John Steinbeck
“I
want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“I
carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it:
"Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”
―
Charles Bukowski
“Because
there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in
dying of.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“He
died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what
it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”
―
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
“But
if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it's time. Just go knowing
you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything
Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing
father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.”
―
Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Nothing
is ever certain.”
―
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
“In
the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
―
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
“To
lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of
growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and
nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who
supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother,
well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I
would rather not go on.”
―
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“It
is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
―
Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
“I
went down to the river,
I
set down on the bank.
I
tried to think but couldn't,
So I
jumped in and sank.”
―
Langston Hughes
“From
the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we
are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and
well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls
with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I
realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my
fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in
order to give in return as much as I have received.”
―
Albert Einstein
