Death Quotes
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
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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.
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Death deserves dignity.
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In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
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I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
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Whatever happens in life can happen on the stage, but as a comedian you should always be clear what your target is. It's fine to be gratuitously tasteless if that's what you are intending to do. It's that old line: I don't defend what a comedian might say but I defend to the death his right to say it.
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The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
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He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
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Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
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Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
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Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.
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Death hath no dominion.
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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
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Where the trees thicken into a wood, the fragrance of the wet earth and rotting leaves kicked up by the horses' hoofs fills my soul with delight. I particularly love that smell, -- it brings before me the entire benevolence of Nature, for ever working death and decay, so piteous in themselves, into the means of fresh life and glory, and sending up sweet odours as she works.
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
