To The Death Quotes

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

I always look well when I'm near death.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.