Death Quotes
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The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
Bobby Scott
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L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
Bhagat Singh
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If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.
Habib Umar bin Hafiz
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
George Meredith
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The Ferguson Grand Jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown is a miscarriage of justice. It is a slap in the face to Americans nationwide who continue to hope and believe that justice will prevail.
Marcia Fudge
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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
Alexander Pope
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I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.
Jamie Wyeth
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It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
Tadeusz Borowski
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Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Don Miguel Ruiz
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Kenya has deep resonances for the royals: it was here, after all, that the young Princess Elizabeth heard of the death of her father, George VI. From that moment, she was Queen.
Penny Junor
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Charles de Montesquieu
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Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.
Rand Paul
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If I love something, I wear it to death!
Ashley Madekwe
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There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week instead of what we are doing (which is creating and sharing our art with others). The truth is that there are people in this world - Dave and I being two - who would die a slow painful death if stuck in an office and made to do the kind of work that we are not made to do.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Orlando Gibbons
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Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon - Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night - Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.
G. H. Pember
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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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All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.
Chris Matthews
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Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.
Elvis Mitchell
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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
John Mellencamp
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
Elayne Boosler
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Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.
Albert Camus