Death Quotes - The death of a beloved is an amputation
“I'm
not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's
just getting out of one car, and into another.”
―
John Lennon
“...But
the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of
intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its
votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form
of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material
prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional
Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten.
Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad
dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the
tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer
and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of
others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are
roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan
break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far
and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism.
The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and
war is face to face with that of peace.”
―
Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
“Live
or die, but don't poison everything.”
―
Anne Sexton
“Pulvis
et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'.
Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life,
killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to
dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history,
nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we
existed at all.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“To
escape death, she'd become death.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
“It's
only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too
controlling.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“If
children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the
human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with
the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate
not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?”
―
Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
“One
to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad”
―
Marissa Meyer, Heartless
“The
death of a beloved is an amputation.”
―
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“If
they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Death,
so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed
in sleep.”
―
Lord George Gordon Byron
“Too
pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one
moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It
surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let
me be the first.”
―
Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
“Life
is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's
plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a
funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the
same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.”
―
Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
“Perfection
of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy,
without apathy, without pretence.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“The
absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
―
Michel Houellebecq
“So
wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
―
William Shakespeare, Richard III
“Even
in the grave, all is not lost.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe
“He
Is Not Dead
I
cannot say, and I will not say
That
he is dead. He is just away.
With
a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
He
has wandered into an unknown land
And
left us dreaming how very fair
It
needs must be, since he lingers there.
And
you—oh you, who the wildest yearn
For
an old-time step, and the glad return,
Think
of him faring on, as dear
In
the love of There as the love of Here.
Think
of him still as the same. I say,
He
is not dead—he is just away.”
―
James Whitcomb Riley
“End?
No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all
must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to
silver glass, and then you see it.”
―
Peter Jackson
“Most
men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most
women fear rape and death.”
―
Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from
Violence
“Time
that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the
grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until
the earth covers us and we are gone.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
“The
fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.”
― E.
M. Cioran
“I
think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying,
because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other
people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.”
―
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“Death
should take me while I am in the mood.”
―
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
“For
this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain,
feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”
―
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“She
had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition,
passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they
wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school's
graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villains, death
didn't scare her. It made her feel alive.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil
