Death Quotes
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Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come.
Leon Foucault
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I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.
Paloma Ayana Stoecker
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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.
George Newbern
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The idea that an afterlife had been invented to reassure people who couldn’t face the finality of death was no more plausible than the idea that the finality of death had been invented to reassure people who couldn’t face the nightmare of endless experience.
Edward St Aubyn
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Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.
D. H. Lawrence
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Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
Ernest Hemingway
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There's a remedy for everything except death.
Peter O'Toole
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Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
Peter Diamandis
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
John Berger
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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
CeeLo Green
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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day
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What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
James Cameron
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I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.
Kiesa Rae Ellestad
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In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.
Milarepa
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
William Hazlitt
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No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
Alex Cox
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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.
Plato
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I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'
Blake Lively
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Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Al Goldstein
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
Joanne Rowling
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Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.
Oliver Gaspirtz
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The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.
Philip James Bailey