Everyone assumes that life is a given, but you and I know that it's not. You and I both know that breath can end, so we know that life is a gift.
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Quotes tagged ‘Death’
After someone dies, I think we want to tell ourselves a story of how it was our fault, because at least it gives us some control.
Grief never looks like just tears and anguish. It's a lot of things all at once. It's joy and laughter and guilt and anxiety and restlessness. It's why we have so much trouble identifying it ourselves in the aftermath of a tragedy.
I started doing whatever I wanted, so I wouldn't bring my regrets with me to heaven.
— Naoshi Arakawa, Takao Yoshioka, Patrick Seitz, Kaori Miyazono, Risa Taneda, imdb.com
Oh, my God. I do think about death. I just want it to be justified, you know? Like, if I die violently, you know, maybe I have, like, Serena Williams sitting on my face, and…I don’t know, Venus is polishing me off, and they’re trying to fit a racket in my ass or something like that. Then my wife com…
Sorry, ballroom's been canceled. The teacher just waltzed out of here. Get it? I'm kidding. She died.
The old Death thought it was funny. But now there's one hard, fast rule in this Universe: what lives, dies. So the next time you or your brother bite it, well, you're not going to Heaven or Hell. One of us—and, Lord, I hope it's me—we're gonna make a mistake and toss you out into the Empty. And noth…
Just a couple hours ago, I killed Death. I'm pretty much open for anything.
You roll with a guy so many years, you start to think he's always gonna be next to you. Like, when you're old and you're drinking on the porch, he'll be in that other rocking chair. And then something happens, and you realize that other chair has gone empty.
And here we were thinking that, you know, we were teaching you. And all this time you were teaching us about heart and about dedication and about how gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day.
Guess that's why we all hold onto life so hard....Even the dead....We're all just scared of the unknown.
I'm sorry that the last time I was with him, I tried to pick a fight. I'm sorry that I spent most of my life angry at him. I mean, for all I know, he died thinkin' that I hate him. So, you're right. What I'm doin' right now—it is too little. It's too late. [pause] I miss him, man. And I feel guilty…
Some people are just born tortured. So when they die, their spirits are just as dark.
I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.
— Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com
The way I see it, there are two different kinds of death. If you're lucky, you live a long life and one day your body stops working and it's over. But if you're not lucky, you die a little bit until you realize it's too late. I know some of you might think there was more I could have done or should…
— Elizabeth Benjamin, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com
There is no shame in dying for nothing. That's why most people die.
People are born, they grow old, and then they die. That’s the world we live in. There’s no magic, no mysticism, no immortality. There is nothing that defies rational thought. It’s not possible. I’m not a believer, I can’t be. But how can I deny what’s right in front of me? Someone who never grows ol…
— Sean Reycraft, Gabrielle G. Stanton, Elena Gilbert, Nina Dobrev, imdb.com
I'm so sorry this happened, but I lost Elena too, Damon. And you're one of the few reminders I have of her to hold on to so you can either resent me or love me, but you're stuck with me.
In the untimely loss of your noble son, our affliction here, is scarcely less than your own. So much of promised usefulness to one's country, and of bright hopes for one's self and friends, have rarely been so suddenly dashed, as in his fall.
Getting older means accepting that the people you've grown to love won't be here forever.