Death Quotes

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

The beauty in the death that awaits us, I find a timeless beauty in that.

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

So not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood.

Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.

Death is the great transition.

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.

Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!