Death Quotes - A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic

 

Death Quotes - A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic 

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

― Joseph Stalin

 

“Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.”

― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

 

“You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'

'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.”

― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

 

“I have outlasted all desire,

My dreams and I have grown apart;

My grief alone is left entire,

The gleamings of an empty heart.

 

The storms of ruthless dispensation

Have struck my flowery garland numb,

I live in lonely desolation

And wonder when my end will come.

 

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted

By tardy winter's whistling chill,

A single leaf which has outlasted

Its season will be trembling still.”

― Alexander Pushkin

 

“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

 

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”

― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

 

“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”

― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

 

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”

― George Eliot, Adam Bede

 

“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”

― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

 

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

 

“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”

― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

 

“There once was a girl who found herself dead.

She peered over the ledge of heaven

and saw that back on earth

her sister missed her too much,

was way too sad,

so she crossed some paths

that would not have crossed,

took some moments in her hand

shook them up

and spilled them like dice

over the living world.

It worked.

The boy with the guitar collided

with her sister.

"There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.”

― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

 

“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”

― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

 

“The phoenix must burn to emerge.”

― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

 

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

― Norman Cousins

 

“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

 

“What do you most value in your friends?

Their continued existence.”

― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

 

“You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”

― Laurell K. Hamilton

 

“No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt”

― Hunter S. Thompson

 

“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”

― Roland Barthes

 

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”

― Hans Christian Andersen

 

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

 

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”

― Eckhart Tolle