Death Quotes

• In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Life
  • Important
  • Home

• Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Long
  • Death
  • Connection

• In the face of death, we will continue to choose and sanctify life.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis
  • Life
  • Death

• This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Fun
  • Death
  • Joy

• For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Time
  • World
  • History

• It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

  

  Homer
  • Death
  • Battle
  • Killed

• Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry...about the country, the suburbs and the seaside...then there comes love...and increasingly, the fear of death.

  

  John Betjeman
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Poetry

• If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Death

• [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

  

  Cleopatra
  • Life
  • Italy
  • Roman

• Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Death
  • Earth
  • Space

• There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Reality
  • Water
  • Fire

• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Spring

• 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
  • Time
  • World
  • Waiting

• The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

  

  Saib Tabrizi
  • Life
  • World
  • Expectations

• You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

  

  David Carradine
  • Death

• Essentially I am interested in this world, in this life, not in some other world or future life. Whether there is such a thing as soul, or whether there is survival after death or not, I do not know; and important as these questions are, they do not trouble me the least.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Ah thought that every cunt over twenty was a toss an no worth speakin tae, until ah hit twenty. The mair ah see, the mair ah think ah wis right. After that it's aw ugly compromise, aw timid surrender, progressively until death.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Death
  • Ugly

• People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

  

  Keith Henson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Service

• Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
  • Death

• People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • People
  • America
  • Song

• Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • Experience
  • Death

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