1000 Best Death Quotes

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. Huey Newton

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good. Josh McDowell

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life. Mason Cooley

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. Aeschylus

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. Buddha

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo Buscaglia

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. Fidel Castro

There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now. Guru Nanak

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. Benjamin Franklin

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. Henry Miller

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. Brennan Manning

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime. Kamala Harris

The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies. Florentijn Hofman

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. Mary Roach

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject. Carl Hiaasen

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. Wendell Pierce

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died. Richard Flanagan

Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes. Milos Zeman

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. Virgil

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral. Marina Abramovic

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? Deepak Chopra

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. Martin Heidegger

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. Jerry Garcia

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. Stephen Jay Gould

The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune. Marie Curie

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.' Adam Hamilton

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. Epictetus

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin

It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need. Elaine Chao

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. Kim Elizabeth

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. David Gerrold

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Joel Osteen

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. Bret Harte

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death. Hugh Laurie

Death's in the good-bye. Anne Sexton

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. Terry Pratchett

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. Bodhidharma

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. Michael Sheen

I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world. Priyanka Chopra

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. bell hooks

My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it's like you're on Mars. Petra Collins

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. Robert Green Ingersoll

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. John Milton

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. Michael Palmer


I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management. James Belushi

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Thomas A. Edison

The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake. Maysoon Zayid

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. Ernest Hemingway

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. Leo Tolstoy

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? Rush Limbaugh

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. James Hetfield

I intend to live forever, or die trying. Groucho Marx

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. Suzanne Collins

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. Woody Allen

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. Mahatma Gandhi

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. Damien Hirst

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. Ezekiel Emanuel

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death. Robert Jay Lifton

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. Michel de Montaigne

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death. Aaron Sorkin

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. Theodore Roosevelt

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. Yusuf Hamied

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. Isabel Allende

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. Ida B. Wells

Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death. Joe Morton

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. Eliot Ness

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. Anna Akhmatova

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. Napoleon Bonaparte

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. Thomas Merton

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? Ernst Toller

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. Jeanne Moreau

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing. Anthony Mann

There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord. Ignatius of Antioch

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare. Timothy Murphy

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. Roger Ebert

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. Ryan Gosling

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. Wendell Berry

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. Jack Kerouac

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. Albert Camus

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. Robert Green Ingersoll

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. Angela Davis

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen

I don't think there is life beyond death. I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. Guillermo del Toro

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Clarence Darrow

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. Bill Shankly

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. Moses

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body. Dalai Lama

Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them. Marjane Satrapi

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't. Damien Hirst

Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them. Daniel H. Wilson

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake. Daniel Berrigan

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. Martin O'Malley

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. Fran Lebowitz

For me, habit is just a synonym for death. Juliette Binoche

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. Henry Rollins

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. Norman Cousins

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. Hedy Lamarr

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. Aeschylus

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. John Webster

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling. Dorothy Day

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. Mark Twain

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. Nancy Reagan

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

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. Billy Graham

All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. Nikos Kazantzakis

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged. Dianne Feinstein

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. Stephen Hawking

To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going. Tom Lehman

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. John Grisham

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome! Fidel Castro

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here. Morning Star

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert M. Hutchins

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller

Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution. Antonin Scalia

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. Mahavira

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. Leonardo da Vinci

If we don't know life, how can we know death? Confucius

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. Roger Ebert

The idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley Montagu

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. Hugh Hefner

I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. Christopher McCandless

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life. Vincent Nichols

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. Viktor E. Frankl

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. Jackie Kennedy

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death. Michel Houellebecq

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one can make you happy. No one can help you grow in life more than you can. I can love you to death, but I can only go so far. I can inspire and encourage you as much as I can, but when you play an active role to find that self-security and that self-worth, it makes the difference. Musiq Soulchild

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. Tim Kaine

Death is better than slavery. Harriet Ann Jacobs

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. Tupac Shakur

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death. Gary Johnson

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. Sachin Tendulkar

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. Ouida

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana

There is no death, only a change of worlds. Chief Seattle

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Virginia Woolf

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death. Enzo Ferrari

Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history. Viktor Orban

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end. Eamon de Valera

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering? Ludwig van Beethoven

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. Edmund Spenser

Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies. Pamela Meyer

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. Thomas Hobbes

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death. Ritchie Blackmore

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. Stanislav Grof

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. William Cowper

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. Douglas MacArthur

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. Saul Alinsky

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. Fulton J. Sheen

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said. Steve Vai

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. Edgar Allan Poe


One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. Joseph Stalin

The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty. Reid Hoffman

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. Nelson Mandela

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need. Russell M. Nelson

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. Orlando Gibbons

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same. Angus Young

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Bill Hicks

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock

I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us. Kristin Armstrong

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. Bianca Jagger

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. Elizabeth Fishel

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. Alfred Russel Wallace

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? Guru Nanak

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. Joseph Stalin

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. Bob Marley

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. Stephen Hawking

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. Brian Clough

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. Anthony Hopkins

Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure. Bruce Lipton

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. Yitzhak Rabin

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words. Friedrich Durrenmatt

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. Eric Holder

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. Mary Catherine Bateson

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. Adlai E. Stevenson

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value. Millicent Fawcett

We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death. Henry B. Eyring

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward. Alan Dershowitz

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Jean Cocteau

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death. Jiddu Krishnamurti

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. Arlo Guthrie

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death. William A. Dembski

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. John Millington Synge

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution. Donald Johanson

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart. Brian Jones

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality. Laurence Fox

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war. Cynthia McKinney

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. Buddha

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Edvard Munch

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? Richard LaGravenese

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. Vladimir Nabokov

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. David Byrne

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. Corazon Aquino

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer

People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking. Drew Gilpin Faust

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. Confucius

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it. Michael Moore

Inactivity is death. Benito Mussolini

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Eugene Ionesco

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. Billy Graham

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. Stevie Ray Vaughan

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death. Curt Schilling

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. R. D. Laing

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity. Eugene Kennedy

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face. Billy Graham

I'm gonna live till I die. Frank Sinatra

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death. Beth Gibbons

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. Wallace Stevens

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. Robert Bolt

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Plato

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis. Seamus Heaney

Man dies of cold, not of darkness. Miguel de Unamuno

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike

The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence. Paul Kalanithi

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Karen Salmansohn

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. Friedrich Durrenmatt

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face. Patrick Swayze

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death. Rose Schneiderman

If we must die, we die defending our rights. Sitting Bull

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. Khalil Gibran

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering. Brigitte Bardot

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. Pearl S. Buck


One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. Max Lucado

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. Damien Hirst

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. Deepak Chopra

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. Henry Rollins

Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical. H. R. McMaster

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father. Johnny Cash

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week. Evan Hunter

With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'. Joan Rivers

Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia. Juliana Hatfield

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. Dennis Prager

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. P. J. O'Rourke

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. Paul Simon

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. Michel de Montaigne

After your death you will be what you were before your birth. Arthur Schopenhauer

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. Ovid

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? Woody Allen

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy. Cedric Richmond

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel. Reid Hoffman

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death. Buddy Hackett

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. Deepak Chopra

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. Leonardo da Vinci

Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented. Birdman

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact. Damien Hirst

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. Ruth Ann Minner

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. Ray Kurzweil

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. Marcus Aurelius

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. John Grisham

As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said. Wael Ghonim

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene. David Lynch

Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' Jeff Lindsay

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby. Oliver Joseph Lodge

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman. Belle Boyd

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. Hilaire Belloc

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. Morrissey

Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had. Jennifer Armintrout

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

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. George Ryan

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. Victor Hugo

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. Danny Glover

Our life is made by the death of others. Leonardo da Vinci

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. Rollo May

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. Kurt Vonnegut

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. N. T. Wright

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Mary Shelley

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. John Ortberg

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. Sun Tzu

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. Khalil Gibran

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. Thomas Hobbes

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you. Toni Servillo

There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. Peter Steele

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. Horatio Nelson

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. W. H. Auden

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne

I love life. I love life to death. Emmanuelle Riva

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. Horace


All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay. Jeanne Moreau

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Coretta Scott King

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate. Solon

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. Jose Marti

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. Omar N. Bradley

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. Elliott Abrams

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess. RJ Mitte

Divorce is probably as painful as death. William Shatner

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! John Lydon

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. Stanislav Grof

Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. Kirk Cameron

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Horace

The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit. Shashi Tharoor

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. Imran Khan

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax. Susan Hayward

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. David Mitchell

Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them. Matt Haig

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. Marcus Aurelius

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. Stanislav Grof

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors. James Woods

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. Charles de Montesquieu

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Joseph Hall

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. Wilson Mizner

The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen. John Burroughs

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death. Dick Gregory

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually. Billy Graham

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. Stokely Carmichael

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. Sting

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. Les Brown

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary. Saint Basil

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. George Whitefield

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. Chuck Palahniuk

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). Dawn Powell

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows. Robert Kiyosaki

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. Philip Johnson

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense. Hozier

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. Ron Paul

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. Alastair Campbell

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. Stewart Alsop

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star. Michio Kaku

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. Ram Dass

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. Morihei Ueshiba

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in. Lynsey Addario

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. Emily Dickinson

If, through death penalty, we can create fears, though it's against my will, we have to do it. Grace Poe

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. Bryant H. McGill

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. Edwin M. Stanton

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes. Sean Taylor

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. James Dean

Death is a fearful thing. William Shakespeare

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier. Xenophon

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. Rose Kennedy

In Syria, a no-fly zone targeted at Assad's air force and safe zones for refugees fleeing the fighting would help tamp down the death toll that plays into the hands of ISIS and other Sunni militants who can position themselves as the only groups that are really defending the Sunni population. Peter L. Bergen

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. Jesus Christ

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. Daniel Barenboim

I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone. Sherwin B. Nuland

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. Alexander Chase

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. Walt Whitman

I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.' Blake Lively

At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies. Max Heindel

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. B. R. Hayden

The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary. Viktor Orban

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took. Brandi Carlile

Life is but a moment, death also is but another. Robert H. Schuller

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. Heinrich Heine


I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. Henry Rollins

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon. Bruce Dickinson

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life. Jose Saramago

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death. Cynthia Ozick

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. Morgan Freeman

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. Robert Falcon Scott

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. Epicurus

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. Voltaire

Every human being is under construction from conception to death. Billy Graham

Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Matthew Green

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. Antonin Scalia

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed. Billy Graham

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them? Willie Aames

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother. Ted Demme

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. William Shakespeare

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. Horace

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. Paul Ricoeur

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential. Paul Di Filippo

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides. Patti Smith

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation. T. D. Jakes

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march. Howard Schultz

I'm not afraid to die. John Wooden

Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat. Munshi Premchand

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries. James Dean

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. Edvard Munch

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. Joel Salatin

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life. Jimi Hendrix

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. George Bernard Shaw

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Miguel de Unamuno

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. Stendhal

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos. Barack Obama

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. Alain Robert

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Unknown

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death. Ben Kingsley

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. Errol Flynn

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble. Michael Cacoyannis

I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970. Aage Bohr

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough. Anthony Hopkins

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. Arthur Koestler

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. Mark Twain

As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us. Kevin DeYoung

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. Richard Eberhart

It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death. Scott Kelly

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. Voltaire

Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At what price are they willing to go back on years of proclaiming 'socialized medicine' as the slippery slope to 'rationing of health care,' 'death panels' and other claims far too gruesome to mention in polite company? Ronnie Musgrove

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. Henry Giroux

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. Thomas Browne

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears. Eckhart Tolle

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. Annie Lennox

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime. Irma S. Rombauer

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' Friedrich Nietzsche

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. Elie Wiesel

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world? Peter Abelard

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer


I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required. Ellen G. White

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. Stanislav Grof

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. Thomas Carlyle

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. Jim Morrison

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Ernest Hemingway

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. William Law

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. Patricia Cornwell

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. Angela Davis

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil. Jane Goodall

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. Will Rogers

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die. Matthew Gray Gubler

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. Mary Shelley

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. John Wayne

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Zygmunt Bauman

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. Davy Crockett

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. Montgomery Clift

An unused life is an early death. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Charlotte Bronte

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

I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief. Jan Hus

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! William Shakespeare

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. Al Green

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. Kurt Cobain

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Horace

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves. Daniel Boone

My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.' Abraham Verghese

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. Raymond Carver

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. Jean de la Bruyere

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. Karen DeCrow

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. Terry Pratchett

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths. Joni Eareckson Tada

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty. Loretta Lynch

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. David Duchovny

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. Tryon Edwards

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple. Gordon B. Hinckley

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. William Blake

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. Georg Hermes

It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching. Kirby Smart

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. John Updike

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life. Steven Seagal

Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that... it would be as loud as a motorcycle. Astro Teller

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. James Stephens

Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house. John Updike

There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death. Mario Botta

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. J. R. R. Tolkien

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. Alan Parker

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset

To have died once is enough. Virgil

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. Joseph Stalin

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required. Asa Hutchinson

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. Julius Caesar

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. Bill Gates

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. E. W. Howe

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. Michelangelo

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. Donna Shalala

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. D. H. Lawrence

Death is the cure for all diseases. Thomas Browne

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. Lord Byron

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. John Keats

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time. Maureen O'Hara

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do. Bear Grylls

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. Lyman Beecher

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse. Jason Isbell

When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real. Alison Jackson

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. Gloria Allred

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. Jack Kevorkian

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. Aristotle

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. Keith Richards

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. Jim Morrison

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate. Norman Davies

My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on. Barbara Ehrenreich

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. Ken Kesey

If you look at the movie 'Belly,' I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I'm not in the game for the wrong reasons. I'm not in the game for the glory. I'm in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I'm a highly intelligent individual. Kevin Gates

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad. Red Skelton

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. Elizabeth I

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination. Devdutt Pattanaik

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. Robert Green Ingersoll

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Tecumseh

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

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. Solomon Northup

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest. Brian Blessed

Death is not the worst that can happen to men. Plato

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. Burke Marshall

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. Abbie Hoffman

I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me. Ryan Murphy

As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world. Robert Jarvik

In the long run we are all dead. John Maynard Keynes


I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family. Steven Curtis Chapman

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' Bill Maher

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. Sun Tzu

You'll have time to rest when you're dead. Robert De Niro

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. Thomas Dewey

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Gustave Flaubert

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. Eliot Spitzer

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. Mary Harris Jones

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. Jean Cocteau

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards. Katie Price

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. Pearl S. Buck

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. Ernest Hemingway

The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life. Yuvraj Singh

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. Douglas Coupland

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. Jerry Saltz

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. Aldous Huxley

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. Roberto Bolano

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. Saul Alinsky

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't. Peter Benchley

Jesus' sinless life was given as a gift to the world - the ultimate gift. Some would receive Him, and others wouldn't. Nonetheless, He continues to be our gift, and His life and death makes it possible for His children to receive eternal life with Him. That's a reason to give God glory. Monica Johnson

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. Muqtada al Sadr

When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all. Michael Eric Dyson

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin

The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty. John Piper

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. Citium Zeno

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. Albert Camus

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods. Socrates

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. Samuel Butler

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. Susan Sontag

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. Bobby Scott

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. Ernst Moritz Arndt

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates

Love has no age, no limit; and no death. John Galsworthy

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. Wangari Maathai

You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. Michael Eric Dyson

Give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. Giuseppe Garibaldi

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. Henry Van Dyke

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia. Coretta Scott King

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. Robert Benchley

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success. Bob Iger

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. Florence Nightingale

The goal of all life is death. Sigmund Freud

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. Eckhart Tolle

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died. Kiki Smith

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. Paul Kurtz

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Napoleon Bonaparte

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.' Steven Wright

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death. Meghan O'Rourke

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death. Paul Ricoeur

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death. Regina Brett

The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer. Louis XIV

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death. Stella Young

Everything that gets born dies. Morrie Schwartz

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. Hu Shih

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. Ramana Maharshi

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Jiddu Krishnamurti

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Ayn Rand

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. Andrew Cuomo

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true. Hugh Sidey

Hell, madam, is to love no longer. Georges Bernanos

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. Johnny Cash

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection. Gordon B. Hinckley


Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Lao Tzu

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. George Carlin

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do? Chanakya

Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside. Donald Trump

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. Nikos Kazantzakis

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. Vladimir Lenin

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls. Michael Huffington

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory. Adam Clarke

The death of the forest is the end of our life. Dorothy Stang

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. Marlene Dietrich

He that fears death loses the joys of life. Jan Hus

There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life. Claudia Rankine

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! Anne Frank

The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert. Caitlin Doughty

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters. Jean Giraudoux

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. Pope Francis

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ. Stanley Hauerwas

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. Francis Beaumont

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. Che Guevara

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Leonardo da Vinci

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help. Max Lucado

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. David Lynch

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. Thomas Hobbes

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. Hannah Arendt

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law. Tim Kaine

My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house. Lata Mangeshkar

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. Margaret Sanger

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. Marcus Aurelius

We die only once, and for such a long time. Moliere

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. Elizabeth Warren

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. Michel de Montaigne

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. Lee Iacocca

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country. Dennis Miller

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. Scott Caan

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. Anatoly Rybakov

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life. Russell M. Nelson

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. Mahatma Gandhi

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. Andre Breton

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice. Michael Greger

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. Anne Frank

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. Carter Burwell

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. Stevie Ray Vaughan

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. Michelangelo

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant. Cesare Beccaria

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. Ed Markey

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. Rick Perry

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. Alfred Nobel

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death. Lena Horne

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death. Myron Scholes

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? Jim Carrey

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. Vincent Nichols

Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again. Jean Reno

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. Miyamoto Musashi

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window. Pau Gasol

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Hermann Hesse

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. Anna Akhmatova

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. Isaiah Berlin

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. George Ryan

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. George Carlin

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street. Leo Buscaglia

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. Bob Dylan

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. Angela Carter

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength. W. E. B. Du Bois

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. Veronica Franco

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. Leo Tolstoy

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. Paracelsus


Death is the tyrant of the imagination. Bryan Procter

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. Bill Shankly

I'll sleep when I'm dead. Warren Zevon

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. Courtney Love

We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow. John Burroughs

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. Elie Wiesel

Give the peasants neither life nor death. Ieyasu Tokugawa

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. Charles Bukowski

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it. Leonard Susskind

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Liu Xiaobo

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. Marina Abramovic

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. W. H. Auden

I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering. Karlie Kloss

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death. Barry Jenkins

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. Herodotus

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. Dean Smith

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. Carl Sagan

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. Annie Besant

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing. Tim Cahill

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that. William Kidd

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived. Irvin D. Yalom

I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only certainty in life is death. We should, therefore, learn to live for the day and be content. Ashwin Sanghi

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. Joseph Rotblat

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. Coco Chanel

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty. Federica Mogherini

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. Henry David Thoreau

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anais Nin

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer. J. G. Ballard

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway

I think the Hammer films really made death quite sexy. Emil Ferris

Death is just life's next big adventure. J. K. Rowling

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. Chiang Kai-shek

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. Pope Benedict XVI

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. Harriet Tubman

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones. Junot Diaz

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. Victor Hugo

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. John Keats

I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal. Platon

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends. John Ortberg

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. Wendell Pierce

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. Charles de Gaulle

Nothing in life is promised except death. Kanye West

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good. Ben Nighthorse Campbell

The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics. Marilyn Ferguson

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Friedrich Nietzsche

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore. Meghan O'Rourke

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. Graham Chapman

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it. Alysia Reiner

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. Carol P. Christ

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done. Louis XIV

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. George Fox

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it. Conway Twitty

How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads. Douglas Brinkley

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women. Gro Harlem Brundtland

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode. John Andre

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. Abu Bakr

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. Sun Tzu

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. Carl Jung

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. Emily Dickinson

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. Harry Mathews

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave. Ron Kovic

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. Ian McShane

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. Jesse Jackson

I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. Tom Waits

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. Tori Amos

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. Matthew Simpson

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing. Jeff Goodell


Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do. Celia Imrie

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn. Mickalene Thomas

Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death! Ram Dass

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. David Sarnoff

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. Katharine Hepburn

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. John Wesley

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. Edmund Spenser

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief. Edward Hirsch

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure. Sloane Crosley

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed. Gary Johnson

People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' Norman Davies

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. Tupac Shakur

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. Judy Garland

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. Ayn Rand

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death. Jesse Ventura

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not. Terrell Owens

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive. Jeff Buckley

Biography is one of the new terrors of death. John Arbuthnot

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it. Marilyn Manson

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death. Maurice Sendak

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway

Death by starvation is slow. Mary Hunter Austin

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation. Yamamoto Tsunetomo

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day. Anne Hathaway

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy. Chris Cleave

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races. W. E. B. Du Bois

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? Thomas Babington Macaulay

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life. Angelo Scola

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. Dodie Smith

He who doesn't fear death dies only once. Giovanni Falcone

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. John Ortberg

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. Elbert Hubbard

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. Hilaire Belloc

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. Elbert Hubbard

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. George Carlin

Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together. Tom Drury

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of. Emmylou Harris

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth. Michael Foreman

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. Lew Wallace

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jan Hus

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death. Captain Beefheart

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. James Anthony Froude

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. Patrick Henry

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. Roger Waters

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. Steve Earle

Grumbling is the death of love. Marlene Dietrich

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. Tennessee Williams

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. Drew Gilpin Faust

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event. Alan Huffman

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. Charles Lindbergh

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. Charles de Montesquieu

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia. Paul Gascoigne

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history. Katharine Lee Bates

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men. Julianna Baggott

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations. Ed Sheeran

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far. Jimmy Chin

The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed. Billy Graham

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. Sam Levenson

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. Dag Hammarskjold

I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone. The Notorious B.I.G.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now. Angelina Jolie

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Maya Angelou

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink. Jack Kevorkian

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander. John Andre

You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty! Rafael Cruz

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. Albert Camus

Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it! Miriam Defensor-Santiago


Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. Gloria Swanson

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. Anne Boleyn

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary. Caitlin Doughty

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. Robert Hewison

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy. Judy Collins

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people. Barbara Corcoran

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them. Wladimir Klitschko

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. Ernestine Rose

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. Germaine Greer

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord. Saint Ignatius

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program. John Glenn

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. Walt Whitman

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. William C. Bryant

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just. Reid Hoffman

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. Boris Pasternak

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death. Sam Harris

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. Deepak Chopra

At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts. George Harrison

At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life. Annie Besant

Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead. Phil Robertson

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. Soren Kierkegaard

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. Daniel Berrigan

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death. Chuck Norris

Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. Ingrid Newkirk

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. Hans Urs von Balthasar

Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. Patricia Heaton

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. Noam Chomsky

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. Ovid


Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. Alfred Adler

Death is the beginning of something. Edith Piaf

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. Alice Thomas Ellis

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. D. H. Lawrence

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Death is very often referred to as a good career move. Buddy Holly

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! Dwight L. Moody

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. Hannah Arendt

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. J. K. Rowling

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. Dorothy L. Sayers

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. Honore de Balzac

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. G. Gordon Liddy

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? W. C. Fields

Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake. Nora Ephron

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. Jessamyn West

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. William Penn

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. Johnny Carson

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. Erik Erikson

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. Pope John Paul II

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible. Georges Simenon

I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments. Serj Tankian

I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. Ward Churchill

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. Fritz Lang

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. Mattie Stepanek

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race. James Weldon Johnson

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying. Nick Cave

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life. Sebastian Junger

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot

I hope to die in the saddle seat. Albert Ellis

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people. Josh Homme

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. Benjamin Franklin

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians. Patton Oswalt

I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God. Miriam Defensor-Santiago

I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die, and the only thing we can control is how we are and what we're doing in the meantime. Steve Gleason

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more. Tony DiTerlizzi

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence. Florence Welch

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story. Elizabeth McCracken

I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. Janet Reno

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. William Shakespeare

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity. Mads Mikkelsen

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. Thomas Aquinas

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. Zebulon Pike

If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants. Alveda King

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. Alphonse Karr

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it. Russell Crowe

In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance. Maajid Nawaz

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. P. J. O'Rourke

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death. Bao Dai

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. Alexandre Dumas

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. Gloria Steinem

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. Terry Pratchett

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. Seneca

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child. Layne Staley

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. Harry Browne

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. Rosalind Russell

Life is a predicament which precedes death. Henry James

Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be. James Stephens

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. Dean Koontz

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. Nicolas Chamfort

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. Mel Brooks

Man always dies before he is fully born. Erich Fromm

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. Tennessee Williams

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. Nick Tosches

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye. Dani Shapiro

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. Alex Campbell

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. Gwyneth Paltrow

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. A. R. Rahman

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down. Donald Hall

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. Martha Beck

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. William S. Burroughs

Not even old age knows how to love death. Sophocles

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. Edith Wharton

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death. Jerry Seinfeld

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. Ron White

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters. Fidel Castro

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. Duane Michals

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. John Thorn

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. Katherine Dunn

Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police. Vikram Patel

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. Plautus


Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God. Dayananda Saraswati

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Arthur Schopenhauer

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. Siegfried Sassoon

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one. Frederica Mathewes-Green

Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences. Ben Shapiro

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. Jim Morrison

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. Ramana Maharshi

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people. Angela Davis

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. William Lloyd Garrison

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. Adam Johnson

The dread of criticism is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. Albert Einstein

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. James Shirley

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children. Robert Kennedy

The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day. Al Sharpton

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. Terry Pratchett

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better. Jeremy Grantham

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects. Rachel Kushner

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Paul McCartney

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. Bertrand Russell

The sole equality on earth is death. Philip James Bailey

The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love. Peter Abelard

The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say. Ram Dass

The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality. Annie Besant

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. Paula Poundstone

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it. Brian May

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. Soren Kierkegaard

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society. Antonin Scalia

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery. Jon Krakauer

There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd. Tommy Lee

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. Lewis Thomas

These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War. W. E. B. Du Bois

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. Jacqueline Cochran

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J. K. Rowling

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how. John Hurt

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. Albert Camus

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. Nathaniel Hawthorne

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? Tony Randall

We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer. Steve Earle

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away. Nick Saban

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you? Ian Mckellen

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. John Greenleaf Whittier

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. Steven Wright

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. Morrissey

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. Stanley Hauerwas

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications. Sheldon Whitehouse

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. W. C. Fields

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. Samuel Fuller

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible. Vik Muniz

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. Vance Havner

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. Napoleon Bonaparte

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. Ian Fleming

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.' Bono