Death Quotes
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Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
Yasser Arafat
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. Howe
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Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.
David Shields
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
P. J. O'Rourke
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Ian Mckellen
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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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For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.
John Fahey
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Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
Sam Sheppard
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
J. G. Ballard
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh
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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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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
Vincent Bugliosi
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The flames roll'd on-he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.
Felicia Hemans
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Joanne Rowling
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
Garry Shandling
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Vance Havner
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In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
Pam Dawber
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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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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Ovid
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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