Death Quotes
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People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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I thought not only am I going to die, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever.
Lara Logan
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrant death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.
Ken Thompson
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?
Kanye West
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I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
Alain Robert
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
Claude Monet
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
Isaac Asimov
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I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
Katy Butler
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emil Cioran
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'I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder.'
D. H. Lawrence
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There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.
John Buchan
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
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You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
David Carradine
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My number one horror movie is the '60s British version of 'Ten Little Indians.' This movie scared me to death when I was a kid - I still dream about it.
Chris March
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None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
Tacitus
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'Every creature has fear,' Jared said. 'Even the non-conscious ones.''No,' Boutin said. 'Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it’s not the same thing. Fear isn’t the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.
John Scalzi
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
Mason Cooley
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
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How many people, when you watched the LA riots on the news, were like me, watching the people getting hauled out of their cars and beaten half to death? How many people were like me seeing this and thinking 'Step on the fucking gas, man. They're on foot, you're in a truck … I think I see a way outta this.'
Bill Hicks
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At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
Charlie Pierce
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The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.
Elaine Pagels
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Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.
Umar