Death Quotes
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.
Fran Lebowitz
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
J. G. Ballard
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
Laura Wade
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Wangari Maathai
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The love where Death has set his seal,Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,Nor falsehood disavow.
Lord Byron
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These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain, Like slaves on a ship talking about who's got the flyest chain
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
Harmony Korine
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
Barbara Corcoran
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
Ingmar Bergman
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel Butler
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
Verite
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.
Marjane Satrapi
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If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
Dale Carnegie
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
Aage Bohr
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Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.
Mel Blanc
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The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
J. D. Hayworth
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Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America's most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, 'Death to America.' If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.
Bill Flores
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He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
Aaron Huey