Death Quotes

We are all dead men on leave.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

Born free. Taxed to death.

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.