Death Quotes

• Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Death
  • Dad

• The program for this evening is not new. You have seen This entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest - (did you have a good world when you died?) - enough to base a movie on?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Websites
  • Dearth
  • Googling

• The emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Primitive

• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Love
  • Growing
  • Beast

• Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Yoga

• Life is the desert, life the solitude;Death joins us to the great majority.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Great
  • Solitude

• Death is the mother of beauty

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death

• There was nothing about Bobby I didn't like... I guess I never understood why he took a left-hand turn when real success came. We got along better from 1990 until his death in 2003. I had accepted him for who he was.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Real
  • Why
  • Success

• I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Action

• After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Question
  • Religious
  • Moral

• I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

  

  David Bailey
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Doubt

• I have worked in 60 countries, covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spent much of 2014 living inside West Africa's Ebola zone, a place gripped by fear and death.

  

  Daniel Berehulak
  • Death
  • Fear

• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.

  

  Marlon James
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Death

• Death, the final, triumphant lover.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Death
  • Final
  • Triumphant

• I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all the cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Death
  • Dying

• The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Chinese

• My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Life
  • Daughter
  • March

• Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Death

• 'One day you'll find a love, and then we can talk on equal terms. I do not mean that to sound patronizing. You are bright and intelligent. You have courage and wit. But sometimes, it is like trying to describe colors to a blind man. Love, as I hope you will find, has great power. Even death cannot destroy it. And I still love her.'

  

  David Gemmell
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Power

• I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • True
  • Death

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