Quotes about Death

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May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of un — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. — Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I — W.H. Auden, Collected Poems
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's — Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Sweets to the sweet. — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in — George Eliot, Adam Bede
It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said.Nash thought about that for a moment, stroking S — Kristin Cashore, Fire
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing. — Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brou — Bill Hicks
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult, Mercy
Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do people recognize ea — R.J. Palacio, Wonder
You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured to be of much use to — Veronica Roth, Divergent
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes. — Courtney Love, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched he — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. — Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the w — John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climb — Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can ha — Gayle Forman, Just One Day