Death Quotes
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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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
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I know death comes. I’ve seen too much death, young death.
Benazir Bhutto
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
Plato
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
Pablo Neruda
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Interviewed by CNN's Christiana Amanpour about his current feelings regarding blame for the September 11th attacks, and whether or not he still feels as he did when he made the conversial statement cited above (8 May 2007) (video recording). This statement attesting that he still blamed so many was made one week before his death.
Jerry Falwell
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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
John Milton
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Every mission has life-or-death moments.
Alan Stern
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Modern readers are apt to be shocked at the idea that God should be prepared to kill off large numbers of men in order to provide an object lesson for those who survive. John [in Revelation] is more realistic about the fact of death. All men must die, and the question mark which death sets over their existence is just as great whether they die late or soon, alone or in company, violently or in their beds. Their ultimate destiny is not determined either by the moment or by the manner of their death, as the untimely death of the martyrs should prove, but by the opening of the heavenly books and by the true and just judgments which proceed from the great white throne.
G. B. Caird
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He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. “You’ll be the death of me, Elena.” She smiled. “You need a little excitement in that boring old life of yours.
Nalini Singh
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Jean Paul
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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.
Ian Mcewan
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.
Nabeshima Naoshige
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You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
Buddy Hackett
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Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.
Oswald Chambers
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But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick to death of seeing people tortured in the name of God. What had happened to these people?
Brom
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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
Bram Stoker
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil Gibran
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Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
Cressida Cowell
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
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There is no danger to the man that knowsWhat life and death is; there's not any lawExceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawfulThat he should stoop to any other law.He goes before them, and commands them all,That to himself is a law rational.
George Chapman