Death Quotes
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You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.
Ben Miller
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Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.
Robin LaFevers
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Whenever I receive death announcements, I consistently notice that a kind of emotion grips me and I feel astonished disbelief. It is as though the departed had passed a difficult examination and achieved something I had not believed him capable of.
Ernst Junger
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I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
Ernest Shackleton
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... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
Alfred de Musset
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I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another...
John Lennon
The Beatles
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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
Victor Hugo
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I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Didacticism is the death of art.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
H. G. Wells
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I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.
Laurie Anderson
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Seemeth it nothing to you, never to accuse, never to blame either God or Man? to wear ever the same countenance in going forth as in coming in? This was the secret of Socrates: yet he never said that he knew or taught anything... Who amongst you makes this his aim? Were it indeed so, you would gladly endure sickness, hunger, aye, death itself. (85).
Epictetus
