Death Quotes

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way as gives us breath: Such a Truth as ends all strife: Such a Life as killeth death.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

I grieve for every death.'It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

Death keeps no calendar.

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

War is death's feast.

Those that God loves, do not live long.

Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.