Death Quotes
It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.
A primary flaw in my psychology is that I'll give people a hundred yards' worth of rope with which to hang themselves, but once they reach that hundred-yard line, I strangle them to death with it.
You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile
If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.
Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.
My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor.
The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.
She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.
One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.
How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.
I think I enjoy my job more now than I did when I started. When I started in 1996 on a national level, I was 27 and part of me was scared to death.
You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.
I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.
I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.
Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.
The question shouldn't be “Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is “Why aren't all the Christians here?
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.
It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.
Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.
The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.
Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.
How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?
I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.
In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.
The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.