Quotes about: death

This most certain doctrine being then received, that there is an evangelical and saving Light and grace in all, the universality of the love and mercy of God towards mankind, both in the death of his beloved Son the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the manifestation of the Light in the heart, is established and confirmed, against all the objections of such as deny it.
– Robert Barclay
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.
– Clive Barker
I wrote none of these books. I made none of these films. Nor drew the drawings, nor opined at such length on death, sex and the human condition.
– Clive Barker
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
– Clive Barnes
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
– Mary Catherine Bateson
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
– Cecil Beaton
Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
– Bob Beauprez
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
– Betty Bender
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
It seems to us an extraordinarily incongruous thing that we have a sport in which two people are literally paid to get into a ring and try to beat one another to death, or at least beat them into a state of senselessness which will then leave them permanently brain-damaged.
– Joseph F. Boyle
I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
– Benjamin Bratt
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
– William J. Brennan, Jr.
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
– Hermann Broch
There are moments when we in the British press can show extraordinary sensitivity; these moments usually coincide with the death of a proprietor, or a proprietor's wife.
– Craig Brown
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
– Julie Burchill
Death, only, renders hope futile.
– Edgar Rice Burroghs
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
– Julius Caesar
Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.
– Julius Caesar
I'm pissed that TBS changed their network and did not renew us. I hope they die a miserable burning death with their new program format because I'm pissed. Now again, I don't want TBS to burn to the ground literally. I just want their ratings to go down in smoldering flames. I'm just pissed that my show got jacked.
– Dean Cain
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
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
– Albert Camus
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
– Albert Camus
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
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
– Elias Canetti
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
– Elias Canetti
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
– George Carlin
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
– George Carlin
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
Al Gore was campaigning on the day of his sister's death, as records of both his interview and his speech that day make clear. But that's hardly the point: Weeks by her side in the hospital would not make up for the cheap way he treated her memory at the Democratic convention last year.
– Tucker Carlson
Avoid boring, conventional people like death is what we are going to do. I'd rather have someone with a facial twitch with something interesting to say than the prettiest former federal prosecutor in all of Los Angeles.
– Tucker Carlson
There's no way to spin it: Allowing women to get shot to death, or blown up, or mutilated and disfigured in war-particularly in a voluntary war-is horrible. It's unnecessary. It's barbaric.
– Tucker Carlson
To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
– Tucker Carlson
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
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
– Johnny Carson
This dance was the dance of death. The clowns danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.
– Angela Carter
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 revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
– Fidel Castro
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
– Miguel de Cervantes
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
– Coco Chanel
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
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
– Alexander Chase
I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
– Cher
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
Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Life inspires more dread than death-it is life which is the great unknown.
– Emile M. Cioran
Life is nothing; death, everything. Yet there is nothing which is death, independent of life. It is precisely this absence of autonomous, distinct reality which makes death universal; it has no realm of its own, it is omnipresent, like everything which lacks identity, limit, and bearing: an indecent infinitude.
– Emile M. Cioran
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
– Emile M. Cioran
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?
– Emile M. Cioran
A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
– Ramsey Clark
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
– Alan Clark
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
– Montgomery Clift
Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
– Glenn Close
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
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
– Tom Coburn
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
– Jean Cocteau
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
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
– Jean Cocteau
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
– Jean Cocteau
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
– Jean Cocteau
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
– Confucius
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
– Confucius
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.
– Ann Coulter
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
– Norman Cousins
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
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
– William Cowper
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.
– Phoebe Cary
Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
– Susan Cheever
I hate technology. I have no landline. I have no mobile phone (it's currently almost literally thrashing around in the throes of death). I'm nearly useless now.
– Eric Cheng
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
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
– Colley Cibber
I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.
– Jack Cleary
Death's sting has a new meaning now that the Times of London is including candid descriptions of human peccadilloes in its obituaries.
– Francis X. Clines
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
– William Cobbett
Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled, My words the words that priest and soldier said, My deed the spear to desecrate the dead. And day, Thy death therein, is changed to night.
– Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Debate is the death of conversation.
– Kitty O'Neill Collins
Whatever choice Elizabeth Bouvia may ultimately make, I can only hope that her courage, persistence and example will cause our society to deal realistically with the plight of those unfortunate individuals to whom death beckons as a welcome respite from suffering.
– Lynn Compton
Ordinarily, death will be determined according to the traditional criteria of irreversible cardiorespiratory repose. When, however, the respiratory and circulatory functions are maintained by mechanical means, their significance, as signs of life, is at best ambiguous.
– Lawrence H. Cooke
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
– John Cory
War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed.
– John Cory
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
– Simon Cowell
We are a sad lot, the cell biologists. Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.
– Lorraine Lee Cudmore
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.
– Samuel Daniel
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
– Angela Davis
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
– Jonathan Davis
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
– Jonathan Davis
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
– John Dewey
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.
– Thomas E. Dewey
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
– Charles Dickens
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
– Denis Diderot
Grumbling is the death of love.
– Marlene Dietrich
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
– John Donne
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.
– Peter F. Drucker
She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
– Marguerite Duras
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
– Leo Durocher