Death Quotes

I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

Come to terms with death. Thereafter anything is possible.

I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.

Death's but one more to-morrow.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

Say nothing but good of the dead.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

Probably death is the best invention of life.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death.

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once.

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

Death makes sad stories of us all.

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

Kira is childish and hates to lose. I am also childish and hate to lose.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

Is it then so sad a thing to die?

They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

This is no time to make new enemies.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.