Death Quotes

Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

God gives quietness at last.

Despair is infidelity and death.

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King...the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

Brief life is here our portion.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.

As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death."