To The Death Quotes

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

Death, thou shalt die.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

Death is the room that is always empty.

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture.

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Death to life is crown or shame.

Death from sin no power can separate.

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

I love the idea of changing my look. I think one owes it to the audience, to go out there and give them something different each time, so as not to bore them to death.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.