Death Quotes

He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

According to your medical checkup, you are dead.

I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

Remember the death penalty is murder.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

With death comes honesty.

If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

I have no regret that someone openly identified with terrorist organisations and activities meets his death the same way.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.