Death Quotes
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The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
Peter Abelard
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman
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The death toll associated with the invasion and occupation of Iraq is probably about 100,000 people, and may be much higher.
J. M. Roberts
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
Emily Bronte
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A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
Irma S. Rombauer
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Jeanne Moreau
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
A. S. Byatt
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
Barret Oliver
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster
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If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Charles Trevelyan
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I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
Larry Wilmore
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
Joseph Heller
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Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.
Haruki Murakami
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If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
Caroline Paul
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I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.
C. Everett Koop
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For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
William Penn
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There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.
Gabriel Macht
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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
Dan Simmons
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When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
Kirk Hammett Metallica
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Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.
J. G. Ballard
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Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I'm obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie
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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
Dani Shapiro
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She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.
Kit Williams