Death Quotes

It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Humans aren't defined by death, and they're not defined by what they lack. They're defined by their connections.

Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

If life begins at conception, but you can be born again later, only to live on eternally after death, what's the big deal about anything?

When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi like my father before me.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

These have not the hope to die.

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Fear doesn't prevent death, but it certainly prevents life.

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

While I was busy reminiscing about my first day on earth, I had forgotten that I was falling to my death. Damned ADD.

Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

Only you and I who love Jesus and have Him now before this life's death will be able to be among the special super-citizens of the Heavenly City, a special super-class of people!

The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow!

The media is either our salvation or our death.

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.

I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

Osama bin Laden... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.

Sarah Palin had a big op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and she said she's against death panels. And I thought, 'Really? She's the one who pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.'

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.

I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.