To The Death Quotes

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.