To The Death Quotes

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

In fact living is dying.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

I take this continent with me into the grave.

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

Death in love is the beginning of a eternal life ! Just make your soul free .

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

Failure too is a form of death.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.

If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.

You think this necklace is a tailsman?" "Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!