Death Quotes

Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.

Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

In the midst of a foggy field, the answers are hidden But the impossible journey deems them forbidden. The Reaper of Death, the Angel of Life. They walk together in day and night.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death.

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

Do you have a death wish?" he asked. Will grinned at him. I'm just relying on your judgment," he replied. "I can't keep track of everything in my head.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Death and adversity come to us all, but so does life everlasting!

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.

I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I will not be bound by anything but my love for you.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

A life well used procures a happy death.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

For the living, death is thievery.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

All in all, death is something like marriage.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.