To The Death Quotes

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?

For the dead there are no more toils.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.

I told you I was sick.

To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centred.

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.

The cost of living keeps going up, although death is surprisingly affordable.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.

I like playing a bit of golf. But, if people went around beating people to death with golf clubs, I'd say, 'Ban golf. I'll take up tennis'

What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.

Death wears many faces, but it’s stench is always the same.

Every day a little death.

I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned.

His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he murmured, and I recognized the line spoken by Romeo in the tomb.

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

You know you're old when the president is younger than you.

I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'

A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!