- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Score Board
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- SEC Score Board
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
A few quotes about Death
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:21 pm
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:21 pm
quote:
“When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
quote:
“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”
Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
I especially find the latter quote intriguing. There is a verb form of the word "death" (died), but that's not really an accurate explanation of death. Instead of saying "he died", the phrase should be "He has come to Death", or "Death has come to him"
This post was edited on 9/19/14 at 7:22 pm
17
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Everybody dies but not everybody lives
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I don't usually find quotes about death especially fascinating because they're purely speculation.
at the same time, that's the exact reason I find them so fascinating.
at the same time, that's the exact reason I find them so fascinating.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:Twain
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
My favorite quote from the Road
So true it is
quote:
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
So true it is
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:35 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Death and taxes. Only sure things in life.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:36 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"Don't waste your death on a half-assed life" - Nikki Sixx
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:42 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
The Road
That is one seriously depressing book for anyone who has small children.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:44 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:SHITTIEST. BOOK. EVER.
The Road
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:55 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"Death smiles at us all, the best a man can do is smile back"
Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:17 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am i to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish." ~Robert Brault
One of my favorite quotes period. Just seems like a good philosophy to live life by
One of my favorite quotes period. Just seems like a good philosophy to live life by
Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:19 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"This world is mine. I think this world may even just be a long, long dream I'm having. You guys may just be illusions, and it can't be proven whether or not you really exist. In other words, this world was created with me at the center. So what will happen if I die? I don't know. My imagination isn't very creative. I just can't imagine myself dying. In other words, there is no way this world can completely disappear. But if I die, then everyone will disappear. I am the only one in this world who won't disappear. The rest are just people I see, as if in a dream."
Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:20 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die. Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don't wanna go tonight"
Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"Shut up, you're dead now!"
-Mr. Death, Monty Python
-Mr. Death, Monty Python
Posted on 9/19/14 at 9:29 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:From the 1930s movie Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi.
Count Dracula: To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious! Mina: Why, Count Dracula! Count Dracula: There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
This post was edited on 9/19/14 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:20 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"Sleep, those little slices of death- how I loath them"
Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:26 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
This one is long, but it's one of my favorites.
It's a living book, this life; it folds out in a million settings, cast with a billion beautiful characters, and it is almost over for you. It doesn't matter how old you are; it is coming to a close quickly, and soon the credits will roll and all your friends will fold out of your funeral and drive back to their homes in cold and still and silence. And they will make a fire and pour some wine and think about how you once were . . . and feel a kind of sickness at the idea you never again will be.
So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. You will know by the page count, not by the narrative, that the Author is wrapping things up. You begin to mourn its ending, and want to pace yourself slowly toward its closure, knowing the last lines will speak of something beautiful, of the end of something long and earned, and you hope the thing closes out like last breaths, like whispers about how much and who the characters have come to love, and how authentic the sentiments feel when they have earned a hundred pages of qualification.
Donald Miller-Through Painted Deserts
It's a living book, this life; it folds out in a million settings, cast with a billion beautiful characters, and it is almost over for you. It doesn't matter how old you are; it is coming to a close quickly, and soon the credits will roll and all your friends will fold out of your funeral and drive back to their homes in cold and still and silence. And they will make a fire and pour some wine and think about how you once were . . . and feel a kind of sickness at the idea you never again will be.
So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. You will know by the page count, not by the narrative, that the Author is wrapping things up. You begin to mourn its ending, and want to pace yourself slowly toward its closure, knowing the last lines will speak of something beautiful, of the end of something long and earned, and you hope the thing closes out like last breaths, like whispers about how much and who the characters have come to love, and how authentic the sentiments feel when they have earned a hundred pages of qualification.
Donald Miller-Through Painted Deserts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 11:37 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"Funeral homes will never go out of business, people are constantly dying to get in."
--My Pops.
--My Pops.
Page 1 of 1
Popular
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News