Death Quotes

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Death deserves dignity.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

After death there is nothing.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me theres some way we can save this. We can save this, right?

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six

Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

I'm forever BECOMING. I'll never be complete, because completion is death.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.