Death Quotes
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Hmm, no, because it happens to everybody. [When asked if he would be sad about the dog's death in Marley & Me]
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A man who runs away from death will run into death.
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Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
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Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
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I'm not really obsessed with death.
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Knowledge is the death of research.
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There is no wisdom but in death
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
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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.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
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The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.
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Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.
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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
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We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.
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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
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Since Bin Laden's death, many Americans have decided that our job in Afghanistan is done. They see a victory in the counterterrorism campaign, and are tired of the corruption, confusion and dysfunction of the nation-building campaign.
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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
