Death Quotes

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

Life's too short for a funeral.

Repetition is the death of magic.

Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

I'd rather die than go to heaven.

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!

Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?

The sure path can only lead to death.

David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington.

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.

A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes.

Life is short, death is forever

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.