Death Quotes

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

Death, however long expected, is sudden at the last.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

that darkest of syllables, death.

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

death was the price of life.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

It's only after their death that people are truly appreciated. It's because they are true to values.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

The right time to die is never exactly now.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

Only death rescues us from dying.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the unavoidable, learning to face it with courage.

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels alone.

We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.