Death Quotes

• The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts. Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Death
  • Person
  • Prospect

• I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Death

• I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Know

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Lost

• I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin-‘finis musicae'.'’

  

  Anton Rubinstein
  • Death

• When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Choose

• The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.

  

  Edward Conlon
  • Bible
  • Shadow
  • Blood

• God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • God
  • Real
  • Small

• I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Life
  • Important
  • Friends

• Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Death

• After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • Death
  • Africas
  • Industrialist

• Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Men
  • Hand

• The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Thinking
  • Death

• The sole equality on earth is death.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Death
  • Earth
  • Equality

• I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

  

  Chris Cleave
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Spring
  • Winter
  • Sight

• Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Death

• When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

  

  John Cusack
  • Truth
  • Death
  • Taken

• If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Up
  • Why
  • End

• There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Death
  • Question
  • Gay

• For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

  

  Socrates
  • Fear
  • Wisdom
  • Knowing

• Death and the dice level all distinctions.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Death
  • Level
  • Dice

• Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished.

  

  Jon Ronson
  • Death
  • Black
  • Powerful

• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life
  • Death
  • Waiting

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