Death Quotes - Page 38

• Death is my neighbor now.

  Edith Evans

  Neighbor

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• And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Night, Thinking, Paris

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.561, Vintage

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• Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

  Cormac McCarthy

  People, Dying, Plans

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• Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

  Edward Young

  Stars, Empires, Quench

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.13

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• Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

  Edward Young

  Tyrants, Portraits, Sat

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• What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

  Lord Byron

  Sunset, Decay, May

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Night, Hug, Thieves

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.379, Vintage

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• We all do fade as a leaf.

  Isaiah

  Leafs, Fades

  Isaiah. LXIV. 6,

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• I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

  Lord Byron

  Dust, Hair, Dying

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• Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

  James Montgomery

  Moving, Home, Dying

  James Montgomery (1857). “The select poetical works of James Montgomery”, p.260

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• We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

  John Osborne

  Dying, Too Much, Months

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• He has gone over to the majority.

  Petronius

  Dying, Majority, Gone

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• There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Fighting, Circles, Voice

  Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub

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• Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Beautiful, Mean, Adventure

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• Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Years, Earth, Lasts

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• I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

  Neil Kinnock

  Eye, Hands, Numbers

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• You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you're wrong?

  Richard Jeni

  What If, Belief, Should

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• The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

  Norm MacDonald

  Cheating, Past, Years

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• I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.

  Doug Stanhope

  Hate, Waiting, No Fear

  "Doug Stanhope: Beer Hall Putsch". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

  Michael Portillo

  Finals, Credit, Opera

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• I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  People, Want, Forbidden Things

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• I'm not ready to die. Period. To begin with, I cannot imagine a future without me in it. Can't do it.

  Robert Schimmel

  Imagine, Periods, Ready

  Robert Schimmel, Alan Eisenstock (2008). “Cancer on Five Dollars a Day Chemo Not Included: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option.

  Dov Davidoff

  Way, Monogamy, Seems

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 14, 2011

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• If you love sleep, you'll really enjoy death.

  Dov Davidoff

  Sleep, Enjoy, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 10, 2012

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