Death Quotes

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!

Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

Nothing in the world is as certain as death.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.

I’m in, Cat. I’d never leave you. Especially when you’ve got death breathing down your neck.” “Very funny,” I retorted, since Bones was inches from my throat

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.

People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

Misogyny is the death of the heart.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.

. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

I do think, from what we know of people who've had near-death experiences, that they often feel a warmth, and a light and a sense of love, and that would be great if that were there when we died.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

He can be lethal death.

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone to get the death penalty.

For the rest of my life?" His voice softens. "Do you want that, Ella May? Do you want me eternally, infinitely, forever, till death do us part?