Death Quotes
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The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow. A life of friv'lous youth and worried age, Its futile course to futile death will flow.
Al-Mutanabbi
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Do not forget, man, consumed by lust:you-are the stone, the desert, are death ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Routine is the death to heroism.
P. G. Wodehouse
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You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.
Ken Kesey
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If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.
William Wordsworth
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Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.
Nancy Byrd Turner
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I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.
Dale Carnegie
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Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Eliot Spitzer
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Charles de Montesquieu
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
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When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant.
Lao Tzu
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Lo! Death has reared himself a throneIn a strange city lying aloneFar down within the dim West,Where the good and the bad and the worst and the bestHave gone to their eternal rest.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen's death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.
Matthew Williamson
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I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.
Craig Newmark
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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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Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
Desmond Morris
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
John Donne
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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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Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.
N.D. Wilson
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Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.
Jane Grey