Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.
- Veronica Roth
Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're going to die, too. This is serious. Fuck fuck fuck.
- Elisa Albert
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?"
That's big.
"Yes. But there's something else."
What else?
He leaned forward.
"Being forgotten," he whispered.
- Mitch Albom
Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?"
"Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.
- Cassandra Clare
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
- Tom Araya
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
- David Attenborough
How did you escape? (Syd)
I fought my way out in a manner that would have made Rambo proud. And when I got home without his body because I couldn't pull him out without getting myself killed, I got slapped in my face by everyone around me. So don't talk to me about death, little girl. I wrote the book on it. (Steele)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.
- Toba Beta
I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
- Holly Black
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
- Orlando Bloom
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
- Harold Brodkey
There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until
their death.
- Charles Bukowski
The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death.
- Sorin Cerin
There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
- Stephen King
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
- Emil Cioran
Whenever I start thinking about death, it always cheers me up to think about my funeral and my tombstone (which, by the way, will say "Here lies Harlan Sturr. Please don't pee on him.")
- Adam Selzer
Death isn't funny."
"Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us us humans death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
- Robert A Heinlein
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Socrates
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
- Virginia Woolf
Here's all she had to say about death: Oh my, oh my.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
- John Green
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
- Michel De Montaigne
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Don't fear God, don't worry about death; what's good is easy to get, & what's terrible is easy to endure.
- Epicurus
People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
- Dan Farmer
I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
For Her Ugliness loved stories full of darkness. She didn't want to be told tales of good fortune and beauty, she liked to hear about death, ugly things, secrets heavy with tears. She wanted her very own world, and it had never heard of beauty and good fortune.
- Cornelia Funke
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
- Leo Tolstoy
You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.
- Robin Gibb
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
- Ryan Gosling
The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
- Sue Grafton
The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so.
(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)
- John B S Haldane
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it
- Tom Stoppard
If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do with all the death? Who is going to remember all the dead?
- Aleksandar Hemon
God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?
- Aleksandar Hemon
I just told them that dear Uncle Silas has gone away on a long journey," she said. "They're such mites, you know, and I've never let them hear about Death, or have ugly toys or stories about ogres and things. I mean, I do frightfully believe in keeping their little minds free from everything but happy, beautiful things, don't you?
- Georgette Heyer
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.
- Helen Humphreys
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
- Aldous Huxley
So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
- Victoria Jackson
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
- Angelina Jolie
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
- Angelina Jolie
If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death
- C G Jung
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
- Abdul Kalam
Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.
- D H Lawrence
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.
- Robert Jay Lifton
The thing about death is that it's honest.
- Laura Linney
There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death. He wasn't sure what it was about but he thought it was about beauty or goodness. Things that he'd no longer any way to think about at all.
- Cormac Mccarthy
We used to talk about death, she said. We don't anymore. Why is that?
I don't know.
It's because it's here. There's nothing left to talk about.
I wouldn't leave you.
I don't care. It's meaningless. You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot.
Death is not a lover.
O yes he is.
Please don't do this.
I'm sorry.
I can't do it alone.
- Cormac Mccarthy
The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.
- Karl Marlantes
If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease... Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.
- Richard Matheson
There is nothing glamorous about death.
- Roger Moore
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
- Steven Morrissey
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
- Morrissey
As much as I hungered to learn more about my past, I was afraid of learning other things too--mostly about death and despair, and dark corners of the globe. I prayed that those memories wouldn't come back to me, because I felt in my bones that some things were too frightening to remember.
- Courtney Allison Moulton
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
- Jack Nicholson
We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!
- Bryan Lee O Malley
They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.
- Ozzy Osbourne
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
- Mario Puzo
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
- Ralph Peters
I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
- Daniel Radcliffe
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
- Ruth Rendell
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnutsjust as I would have if I had made more close friends.
- Richard Rorty
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I think about death all the time, but only in a romantic, self-serving way, beginning, most often, with my tragic illness and ending with my funeral. I see my brother squatting beside my grave, so racked by guilt that he's unable to stand. "If only I'd paid him back that twenty-five thousand dollars I borrowed," he says. I see Hugh, drying his eyes on the sleeve of his suit jacket, then crying even harder when he remembers I bought it for him.
- David Sedaris
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
- Susan Sontag
I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.
- Howard Stern
Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
- Polly Toynbee
I think about death sometimes. Analytically, of course.
- Lynne Truss
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
- Christy Turlington
anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]
- Gore Vidal
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too.
- Gabrielle Zevin
- Veronica Roth
Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're going to die, too. This is serious. Fuck fuck fuck.
- Elisa Albert
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?"
That's big.
"Yes. But there's something else."
What else?
He leaned forward.
"Being forgotten," he whispered.
- Mitch Albom
Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?"
"Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.
- Cassandra Clare
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
- Tom Araya
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
- David Attenborough
How did you escape? (Syd)
I fought my way out in a manner that would have made Rambo proud. And when I got home without his body because I couldn't pull him out without getting myself killed, I got slapped in my face by everyone around me. So don't talk to me about death, little girl. I wrote the book on it. (Steele)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.
- Toba Beta
I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
- Holly Black
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
- Orlando Bloom
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
- Harold Brodkey
There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until
their death.
- Charles Bukowski
The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death.
- Sorin Cerin
There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
- Stephen King
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
- Emil Cioran
Whenever I start thinking about death, it always cheers me up to think about my funeral and my tombstone (which, by the way, will say "Here lies Harlan Sturr. Please don't pee on him.")
- Adam Selzer
Death isn't funny."
"Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us us humans death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
- Robert A Heinlein
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Socrates
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
- Virginia Woolf
Here's all she had to say about death: Oh my, oh my.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
- John Green
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
- Michel De Montaigne
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Don't fear God, don't worry about death; what's good is easy to get, & what's terrible is easy to endure.
- Epicurus
People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
- Dan Farmer
I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
For Her Ugliness loved stories full of darkness. She didn't want to be told tales of good fortune and beauty, she liked to hear about death, ugly things, secrets heavy with tears. She wanted her very own world, and it had never heard of beauty and good fortune.
- Cornelia Funke
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
- Leo Tolstoy
You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.
- Robin Gibb
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
- Ryan Gosling
The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
- Sue Grafton
The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so.
(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)
- John B S Haldane
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it
- Tom Stoppard
If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do with all the death? Who is going to remember all the dead?
- Aleksandar Hemon
God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?
- Aleksandar Hemon
I just told them that dear Uncle Silas has gone away on a long journey," she said. "They're such mites, you know, and I've never let them hear about Death, or have ugly toys or stories about ogres and things. I mean, I do frightfully believe in keeping their little minds free from everything but happy, beautiful things, don't you?
- Georgette Heyer
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.
- Helen Humphreys
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
- Aldous Huxley
So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
- Victoria Jackson
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
- Angelina Jolie
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
- Angelina Jolie
If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death
- C G Jung
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
- Abdul Kalam
Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.
- D H Lawrence
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.
- Robert Jay Lifton
The thing about death is that it's honest.
- Laura Linney
There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death. He wasn't sure what it was about but he thought it was about beauty or goodness. Things that he'd no longer any way to think about at all.
- Cormac Mccarthy
We used to talk about death, she said. We don't anymore. Why is that?
I don't know.
It's because it's here. There's nothing left to talk about.
I wouldn't leave you.
I don't care. It's meaningless. You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot.
Death is not a lover.
O yes he is.
Please don't do this.
I'm sorry.
I can't do it alone.
- Cormac Mccarthy
The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.
- Karl Marlantes
If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease... Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.
- Richard Matheson
There is nothing glamorous about death.
- Roger Moore
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
- Steven Morrissey
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
- Morrissey
As much as I hungered to learn more about my past, I was afraid of learning other things too--mostly about death and despair, and dark corners of the globe. I prayed that those memories wouldn't come back to me, because I felt in my bones that some things were too frightening to remember.
- Courtney Allison Moulton
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
- Jack Nicholson
We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!
- Bryan Lee O Malley
They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.
- Ozzy Osbourne
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
- Mario Puzo
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
- Ralph Peters
I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
- Daniel Radcliffe
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
- Ruth Rendell
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnutsjust as I would have if I had made more close friends.
- Richard Rorty
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I think about death all the time, but only in a romantic, self-serving way, beginning, most often, with my tragic illness and ending with my funeral. I see my brother squatting beside my grave, so racked by guilt that he's unable to stand. "If only I'd paid him back that twenty-five thousand dollars I borrowed," he says. I see Hugh, drying his eyes on the sleeve of his suit jacket, then crying even harder when he remembers I bought it for him.
- David Sedaris
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
- Susan Sontag
I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.
- Howard Stern
Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
- Polly Toynbee
I think about death sometimes. Analytically, of course.
- Lynne Truss
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
- Christy Turlington
anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]
- Gore Vidal
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too.
- Gabrielle Zevin
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