Untimely Demise Quotes

Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him.

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.