Death Quotes
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One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.
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I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.
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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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To be an adult is to be close to death.
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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
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Today words like 'persevere' and 'hero’s death' had been so ceaselessly bandied about that they had long since acquired an ironic sound—at least wherever there was actual fighting. . . . Once, before an attack, Sturm had heard an old sergeant say the following: 'Kids, we’re going over there now to gobble up the Englishmen’s rations.' It was the best battle address that he had ever heard. That was surely something good in the war—that it destroyed glorious-sounding phrases. Concepts that hung fleshless in the void were overcome by laughter.
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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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Mercy often inflicts death.
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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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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.
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We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.
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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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They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.
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I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.
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How could one create life with someone who represented 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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Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.
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Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
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The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
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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 don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.
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What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.
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Just as it takes death to awaken us to the full stature of someone loved.
