Death Quotes

• I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Believe
  • Theatre
  • Imagined

• Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Hope
  • Knowledge
  • Pain

• People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele.

  

  Edward Bryant
  • People
  • Death
  • Weird

• As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation. . . .

  

  C. I. Scofield
  • Good
  • Grace
  • Acceptance

• I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

  

  Peter Farrelly
  • Great
  • Death
  • Funny

• A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dreams
  • Suicide
  • Breath

• I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death - abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box.'

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Death

• I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • God
  • Faith

• He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

  

  George Osborne
  • Death
  • Star
  • Kiss

• No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

  

  Alex Cox
  • Death

• Mike Webster's death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. Four Super Bowl rings. He had played in more games - 220 of them - than any other player in Steelers history.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Time
  • History
  • Player

• [I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Dying
  • Liberty
  • Assuming

• What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Wishes

• In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Death
  • Persist

• Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • High
  • Audience
  • Poet

• And weeping fast as she had breathJanet implored us, 'Wake her from her sleep!'And would not be instructed in how deepWas the forgetful kingdom of death.

  

  John Crowe Ransom
  • She
  • Death
  • Sleep

• People have not given children enough credit to understand the idea of death. But I really think they do.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • People
  • Children
  • Death

• I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dying

• Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Practice
  • Courage
  • Lion

• Death was so channeled and directed by this staircase, yet Sharpe had learned that the steps a man feared most were the ones that had to be taken. He climbed.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Death
  • Taken

• Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Death
  • Eternity
  • Mangle

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

  

  Leon Panetta
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Death
  • Heaven
  • Favourites

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