What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won’t embrace it so easily. And death must...

We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death.

Why is it that the beautiful things are entwined more deeply with death than with life?

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and...

Stars,” she whispered. “I can see the stars again, my lady.”A tear trickled down Artemis’s cheek. “Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight.”Stars,” Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she...

Who said, ‘All Time’s delightHath she for narrow bed;Life’s troubled bubble broken’? —That’s what I said.

I guess sometimes the truth just isn’t worth believing… Personally, I’ve always felt that life’s too short for truth. I’m just here to be entertained.

You don’t know what cold is until you’ve experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.

You haven’t lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.

Susannah continued. “If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don’t want to look like I’ve been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to...

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar’s fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

Whether that lady’s gentle mind, No longer with the form combinedWhich scattered love, as stars do light, Found sadness where it left delight,I dare not guess; but in this lifeOf error, ignorance, and strife,Where nothing...

Holy Dying”, extract from chapter IV.I (The Practice of Patience) para 5.

Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you...

You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Hope can still exist even when rescue is impossible.

Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks

Everything is true,’ he said. ‘Everything anybody has ever thought.”Will you be all right?”I’ll be all right,’ he said, and thought, And I’m going to die. Both those are true, too.

The problems of today’s youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this...

Look, look,’ cried the count, seizing the young man’s hands – “look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the...

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

Tis the wink of an eye, ’tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-Oh! why should the spirit of...

To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor.

Final DispositionOthers divided closets full of mother’s things.From the earth, I took her poppies.I wanted those fandango foldsof red and black chiffon she doted on,loving the wild and Moorish music of them,coating her tongue with...

I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through...

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to...

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be.

and I told myself — as I’ve told myself before — that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I...

If you can overcome love, you can overcome fear. If you can overcome fear, you can overcome death.

Life was a bloody battlefield until I conquered the enemy and won the war. Now, life is a journey, and I am a warrior. Prepared for anything and weakened by nothing. There are hills and...

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can’t look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people...

The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your...

Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.

Mithorden said it well,” she said finally. “It’s worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they’re really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies — war,...

Considérez dans son martyre spirituel cet être qui gît les yeux clos, disloqué comme la victime d’un accident brutal qui ne nécessite plus ni attention ni secours. Dénombrez les coups de couteau de la hideuse...

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Poor little girl. Poor little girl,” Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me,...

If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If that’s its time, when else should it come?I like it...

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...

Again he shook his head. The world’s gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the...