Quotes and sayings about tag  #death

Quotes and sayings about tag  death

159 Quotes

Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...

J.K. Rowling

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

Jasmine Warga

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

Jasper Fforde

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

Jennifer Niven

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!

Jim Elliot

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

Jo Nesbø

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Jodi Picoult

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

Jodi Picoult

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

John Green

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

John Newton

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

José Saramago

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

Joseph Stalin

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

Kabir

Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this.

Khushwant Singh

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

Lao Tzu

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.

Leo Babauta

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

Leo Tolstoy

Our life is made by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

Madeline Miller

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Margaret Mitchell

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Marie Lu

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Markus Zusak

Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

Markus Zusak

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.

Meg Cabot

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

Michael Cunningham

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Michel Houellebecq

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