Death Quotes

Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

We see death constantly on film.

I love my little sister to death

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

Death pays all debts.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Death is not going to hold down Huell Howser.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]

Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

Love each other or die.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

Love is the most important thing a person can knowIf you should win love once, you'll know it is harder than death to let go.

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.