Death Quotes

• A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.

  

  Kathryn Erskine
  • Death
  • Movies
  • Guys

• [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

• “To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.”

  

  Charles Addams
  • Live
  • Death
  • Torture

• Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

  

  Dorothy Leigh Sayers
  • Death
  • Single

• I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Work
  • Death

• 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

• She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of support for government intervention followed. Under President Ronald Reagan The Funeral Rule was first enacted to protect consumers from deceptive practices, but the rule has yet to put the nail in the coffin.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • American
  • Support
  • Funeral

• 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

• You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

  

  Buddy Hackett
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

  

  Arthur Middleton
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Death

• Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Death
  • Slave

• Wut's words to them whose faith an' truthOn war's red techstone rang true metal;Who ventered life an' love an' youthFor the gret prize o' death in battle?

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Life
  • War
  • True

• I don't have any favourite lyrics. Honestly, all of them I love 'em to death - it's the same with songs. I don't have just one favourite lyric, I love them all.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • I Love
  • Lyrics
  • Lyric

• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Habit

• I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture that you can interpret differently every time you look at it.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Time
  • Art
  • Death

• 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

• The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Nature

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

  

  Peter Farrelly
  • Great
  • Death
  • Funny

• The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Death

• Radio is the death and life of Africa.

  

  George Ayittey
  • Life
  • Death

• Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

  

  Arthur Schnitzler
  • Love
  • Death
  • Write

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