Death Quotes
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Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!
Edwin Arnold
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Perfectionism is the death of a great room.
Anne McDonald
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I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
Jimmy Iovine
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I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
Belle Boyd
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me.
Bill Pullman
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Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
Sophocles
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
Byron Katie
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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
Alexander Pope
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Whatever we try - to be rich, to be happy - death is unavoidable. It doesn't matter how much money you have; it doesn't matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it's all heading that way.
Jeremy Podeswa
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And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
Joanne Rowling
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I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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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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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
Bernard Sumner New Order
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'I think you look on death as your friend,' she murmured. 'That is a strange friend for a young man to have.''The only faithful friend in this world,' he said. 'Death is always sure to be at your side.'
Poul Anderson
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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
Marcus Aurelius
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Death is the perfect knowing.
Marjorie Holmes
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Death is but an instant, life a long torment.
Bernard Joseph Saurin
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If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
Paul Lynde
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn
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Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.
Oprah Winfrey