Death Quotes
-
Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
Ernest Hemingway
-
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
I will never forget how sad it was watching this lil guy walk down the aisle at his dads funeral. He’s not so little any more.
Ken Casey
-
Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death.
Georges Brassens
-
I'm working myself to death.
Alan Ladd
-
Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
Confucius
-
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
-
This culling poem is a blessing. Why do you think it was created in the first place? It will save millions of people from the slow terrible death we're headed for from disease, from famine, drought, from solar radiation, from war, from all the places we're headed.
Chuck Palahniuk
-
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
V. S. Naipaul
-
It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.
Eleanor Coppola
-
Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.
William Shakespeare
-
The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.
Benjamin Crump
-
U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.
Uzodinma Iweala
-
Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
Walt Whitman
-
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
John Ortberg
-
This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
Kurt Vonnegut
-
I think you die the way you live.
William Shatner
-
Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?
Gautama Buddha
-
There is no more final end than death.
John Thaw
-
The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.
Ethan Canin
-
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel
-
The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.
Scott Adams
-
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross