Death Quotes

Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

Death is never very pretty.

May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.

If you believe it's life or death for the kids, it changes everything you do.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

In my lowest moments, when I genuinely longed for death, I knew that Jesus would walk with me through that valley as well.

All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison.

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

A good death does honour to a whole life.

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

Violence and war lead only to death.

Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.