Death Quotes
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The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.
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I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
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I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
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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.
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I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
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Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.
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These are not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.
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Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
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No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
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Great goddess, to whose throne in Cynthian fires,This earthly altar endless fumes expires;Therefore, in fumes of sighs and fires of grief,To fearful chances thou send'st bold relief,Happy, thrice happy type, and nurse of death,Who, breathless, feeds on nothing but our breath,In whom must virtue and her issue live,Or die for ever.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the eighteenth century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.
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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]
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I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.
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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.
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I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
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Acting in Los Angeles can be very isolating because you either have a job or you don't have a job - and if you don't have a job, it's all about getting out of your house. It sucks to sit around waiting. That's death.
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The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.
