37 Best unexpected death quotes

1. It's your life, not your death, that defines you.

2. When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.

3. Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

4. If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.

5. Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

6. If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

7. It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.

8. And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

9. The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

10. Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?.

11. I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.

12. They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

13. I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

14. Search for the stranger inside you, forgotten even by your death.

15. Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.

16. [death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return.

17. Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos (Death) at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day.

18. Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

19. I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

20. Just when you think you're in the cat-bird's seat, the Angel of Death calls "dibs" on shotgun.

21. Death preserves an ideal.

22. I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

23. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

24. Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

25. 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.

26. If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

27. I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive.

28. Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.

29. I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

30. Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day….

31. You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!.

32. And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

33. Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.

34. It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.

35. well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you.

36. We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

37. There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

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