Silent Death Quotes

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.