Death Quotes
-
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck
-
Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
Nick Tosches
-
I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.
Ismail Kadare
-
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
George Ryan
-
Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.
Ardel Wray
-
The very first surviving account of Jesus’s life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death. Our latest canonical Gospel was written sixty to sixty-five years after his death. That’s obviously a lot of time.
Bart Ehrman
-
She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.
Elena Ferrante
-
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)
Seneca the Younger
-
There is always a group of death in any World Cup. And it's a complement in a way to be in a group of death because it means that you're a good team also.
George Vecsey
-
I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are going to live an amazing life,' and I have.
Amy Purdy
-
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
Lord Byron
-
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
Joseph Brodsky
-
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
-
Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.
Jordan Peele
-
One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.
Milton Berle
-
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
-
If you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading.
Abraham Lincoln
-
Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap dancing ruin your reputation as a professional wrestler? Who knows. And who cares? Unless your unknown puts you at risk of death, prison, or bodily harm, you have nothing to lose except living a dull, uninspired life.
Jen Sincero
-
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
-
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
Albert Camus
-
Whatever good works ye send on before death... ye shall find with God.
Elijah Muhammad
-
Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy.
Catherynne M. Valente
-
Obviously, the death of Usama Bin Laden marked a strategic milestone in our effort to defeat al-Qa'ida. Unfortunately, Bin Laden's death, and the death and capture of many other al-Qa'ida leaders and operatives, does not mark the end of that terrorist organization or its efforts to attack the United States and other countries.
John O. Brennan
-
Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?
Emily Dickinson