Death Quotes

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Isn't death the boundary we need?

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

I was seeing people that were older who didn't create any kind of foundation in their lives, and it scared me to death.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.