Death Quotes

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

The leading cause of death is birth.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

What is death all about? What is life all about?

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

The Qur'an says that every soul must taste of death. None of us can escape that, but for you there is no such thing as 'death'.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.

If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.

We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Life without learning is death.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

I have been photographed to death.

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

Death is birth into the realm of the spirit.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life.

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.