Death Quotes

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth.

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.