Death Quotes

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

I believe we will start believing in God as we get closer to death.

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.

After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Black does not signify the darkness related to death or nothingness, but a darkness that combines everything and holds the possibility of creation, a temporary death that embraces rebirth.

I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.

How rare to stare into the face of death... Something I never intend to do again.

There is life or death in words.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Literature is the best way to overcome death.

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.

I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.

Computers will be the death of us all.

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

A death is the most terrible of facts.

One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.

The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.

You might say that death has relaxed me.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

We all do fade as a leaf.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.

If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

Yeah, I get a death scene, but what does that mean?

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.

Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.