All Quotes By Tag: Death

“The morgue is a Victorian update of a system established by Alfred the Great. It’s the place where certain deaths are resolved – those where the cause is unclear or is the result of some intended or accidental violence. The bodies are almost always victims in some way – of crime, suicides and car crashes, but also victims of loneliness. It’s where you go if you die alone in your flat and your body lies undisturbed for days. It’s where you go if no one knew you were dying and no GP attended your final hours. It’s where you go if no loved one held your hand as you slipped away. In one way or another, then, all the people who pass through this room are the people who die screaming.”

“The planet’s tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.”

“Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.”

“Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!”

“The day before the Queen’s Ball, Father had a visitor–a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and sent over–and while Father was explaining to her the enjoyment he was having in writing this Drood book for serialisation, this upstart of a girl had the temerity to ask, ‘But suppose you died before all the book was written?’ […] He spoke very softly in his kindest voice and said to her, ‘One can only work on, you know–work while it is day.”

“Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.”

“It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death.””Sure and show me the person’s road that does not lead to death. we try to divert our attention, to pretend ’tisn’t so, but the very air we breathe is vulture’s breath. Please don’t be insinuatin’ your man is morbid. I dwell on death in order to defeat it.”

“Sit,” Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. “Let’s hear the rest of it. You can kill him later.”~Chloe to Dageus.”

“One of my biggest fears is that I’m going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.”

“I’m going to enjoy this.”“What?” I asked. “Hell?”

“Look around. The hantavirus is waiting for you. Ebola and the tropical rainforest is cooking up all kinds of brews to make sure that the population is kept in control. All these things are necessary. Why is there an increase in sexual deviance right now? Because it goes against procreative sex. Mother Nature does not want more children. This is not a time of birth. It is not a time to give birth, it’s a time to die. The Bible says all things under heaven and that includes death as well as life. You out there, you comfortable ones, you point the finger. You say the junkie is the problem, you say the sexual deviant, serial killer, racist, and the man who hates his fellow man is the problem. But they ain’t the problem. You’re the problem. The sexual deviant, the murderer, the serial killer, the taker of human life is the cure, you’re the problem.”

“Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.”

“If I weren’t already dead, I’d have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.”

“If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945”

“Just consider how terrible the day of your death will beOthers will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back”