Death Quotes

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" "A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death.

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

A simple right or left can mean life or death, Epic fail or nice success, Days of pleasure or nights of stress.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

Psychiatry causes so much death

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

I have faced Death. I have been caught in the wild weed tangles of Her hair, seen the gleam of her jade eyes. I will go when it is time - no choice! - but now I want life.

The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end.

Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the only cause that you can't die for.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.