Death Quotes

For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!

We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

Life is as serious a thing as death.

Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.

Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

He who fears not death fears not a threat.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

How sweet to die after one's enemies.

The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.

Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

I believe in life after death.

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.