Death Quotes
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If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Confucius
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The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...
John Howard
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The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.
Holly Hunter
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'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'
Kenneth Branagh
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After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.
Anna McPartlin
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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
Charles Dickens
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For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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I had to deal with death at a really young age.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
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I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.
R. A. Torrey
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There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
Peter Greenaway
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If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
Paul Ricoeur
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When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.
Dalai Lama
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A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.
David Lynch The Platters
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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
Deepak Chopra
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Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.
Darren Star
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Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.
Allison Joseph
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It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.
Aoife O'Donovan
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Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
George Eliot
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
Plato
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Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.
Adam Silvera
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I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
Haruki Murakami
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Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
Albert Scott Crossfield
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I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'
Jenny Eclair