Death Quotes
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Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.
Peter T. King
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The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
Alistair Darling
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I never thought before my death to see Youth's vision thus made perfect.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Barry Cornwall
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At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
Klaus Fuchs
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Around the globe, millions more are mourning the death and celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II .Could any other world leader have drawn so many people to one place?
Chris Matthews
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
William Cowper
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There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4.
Albert Camus
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Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
J. D. Greear
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I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
Charles Jencks
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I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.
C. S. Lewis
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Let's be perfectly honest. I love Rock to death. We're all different people, but Rock's a showman.
Bill Goldberg
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This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.
John Osborne
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You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
Socrates
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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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Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.
Philip Roth
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I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
Martin Parr
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'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.
Jonathan Kozol
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I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
Hans Kung
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Life without literary studies is death.
Seneca the Younger
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
T. S. Eliot
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
Henry Ward Beecher
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When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.
Sophocles
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It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.
Marianne Williamson