Death Quotes
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'
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How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
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Fear is not an emotion, it is a disease. It spreads from the leader to his followers and vice-versa. Nothing has killed more men in war than fear. What should a warrior fear? Death? But death is what everyone achieves ultimately. Is it wounds that you fear? What is more important? A pint of your blood or the nectar of victory? Think. Thinking will clear such doubts.
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When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
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After death there is nothing.
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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.
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I'm not really obsessed with death.
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For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.
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There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.
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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.
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To some extent I liken slavery to death.
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God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.
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It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.
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In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
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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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Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.
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I will work hard to try to get rid of the death penalty. If I could do that, with all the other things I have not succeeded in doing, I would consider my political career to have been a resounding success.
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Love your readers to death!
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She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?
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Life is a death-defying experience.
