Death Quotes

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin
But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.

Elizabeth Wein
- Missing
- Existed
- Nazi

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Simone de Beauvoir
- Death
- Problem
- Horror
Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.

Andy Webster
- Death
- Fighting
- Event
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

Eric Holder
- Death
- Law
- Congress
Men will consider deeply before they buy a tie or choose a meal; but when it comes to throwing aside their purpose in life, possibly life itself, they do not think at all. They consent to be marshalled, controlled, exposed to unimagined shock, mutilation and death, with barely a tremor, and their reasons for complying, if indeed they have any, would comparen most shamefully with their reasons for doing anything else.

Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Purpose
- Choose
- Reasons
When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.

Richard Simmons
- Death
- Tastes
- Binging
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.

Dante Alighieri
- Death
- Lost
- Forest