Death Quotes

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.

We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.

…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

Routine is the death to heroism.

To retire is the beginning of death.

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.

Life is stronger than death.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.