To The Death Quotes

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

It's not that I'm afraid of death, but afraid of the thought of my people laid to rest; They saying there is 6 million ways of death but not even one way to fade the stress.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

Never live life in fear of death

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.

I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

Life is just a dream on the way to death.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.