Death Quotes

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

The healthiest response to life is joy.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

Death is the mother of beauty.

Cake and tea or death?

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

Death is the last limit of all things.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last; Who was and is; who liveth and was dead; Beyond the reach of death He now has pass 'd, Of the one glorious Church the glorious Head.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.

Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.