Death Quotes
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
Umberto Eco
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A charge of knights was supposed to be thundering death on hooves, a flail of metal driven by the ponderous weight of men, horses and armor, and properly done, it was a mass maker of widows.
Bernard Cornwell
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
Marina Abramovic
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As if death were a resource that had to be earned, that could ever be used up or wasted.
Carrie Vaughn
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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
Vance Havner
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Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
Cressida Cowell
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I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her.
Kevin Williamson
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'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death.
Aimee Carter
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It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude.
Carole Lombard
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I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.
Barbara Dana
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
Plato
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I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
Scott Cohen
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The universe has resources of death which we have barely begun to pick at
Algis Budrys
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Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Lao Tzu
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When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!
C. S. Lewis
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Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.
Adrienne Mayor
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Then with no throbs of fiery pain,No cold gradations of decay,Death broke at once the vital chain,And freed his soul the nearest way.
Samuel Johnson
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The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
Jim Lehrer
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In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
Edwin Way Teale
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I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.
Lincoln Davis
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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
Saint Augustine
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I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.
Gene Wilder
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
Cato the Elder
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Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
Jeanne Moreau