Quotes about: death

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
– Harold Wilson
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
– Virginia Woolf
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
– Virginia Woolf
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
Strength in what remains behind,
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be,
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of Human suffering,
In the faith that looks through death
In years that bring philophic mind.
– William Wordsworth
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
– Rodney Yee
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
– Chuck Palahniuk
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.
– Chuck Palahniuk
It's only in drugs or death that we experience anything new and death is just too controling.
– Chuck Palahniuk
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it is the only way they can really get anything finished.
– Chuck Palahniuk
I felt like it's my time to shine, I have to rip this. At that time, I felt that it was a life or death situation.
– Eminem
You've gotta know what death is to know life!
– Jack Kevorkian
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
– Francoise Sagan
You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.
– Robin Gibb
You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
– David Carradine
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
– Billy Corgan
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
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
– Vance Havner
You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.
– Benjamin Netanyahu
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
– David Attenborough
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
– Joel Osteen
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
– Ian Mckellen
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
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
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.
– David Carradine
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
– Charles Frohman
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
– Clint Eastwood
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
– Stanislav Grof
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
– Barry Goldwater
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
– Mariah Carey
When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
– John Hodgman
When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.
– Paul Stanley
When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.
– Kerry King
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
– W. C. Fields
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
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
– Allen Klein
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
– Ralph Fiennes
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
– Tammy Bruce
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
– Russell Baker
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
– Steven Morrissey
When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
– Albert Brooks
When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
– Adam Ant
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'
– Mark Udall
When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
– Kirstie Alley
When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.
– Muqtada al Sadr
When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
– Maurice Sendak
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
– John Cusack
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
– Henry Van Dyke
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
– Jessica Savitch
What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
– Rita Dove
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'
– Christopher Hitchens
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
– Miguel de Cervantes
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
– Mary Wesley
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
– Bjorn Lomborg
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
– John Bacon
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
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
– Stokely Carmichael
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
– Doug Coupland
We see death constantly on film.
– Michael Sheen
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
– William Shatner
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
– Brigitte Bardot
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
– Umberto Eco
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
– Yitzhak Rabin
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
– David Sarnoff
We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
– Robert McNamara
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
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
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
– Jonathan Kozol
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
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
– Bill Hicks
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
– Stephen Ambrose
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
– Jane Smiley
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
– Dan Savage
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
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
– Peter Tosh
To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
– John James Audubon
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
– Pierre Corneille
To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
– Jorge Luis Borges
To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
– Liam Neeson
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 appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.
– Giada De Laurentiis
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
– Dodie Smith
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
– Taylor Caldwell
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
– Wilson Mizner
Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
– Elias Hicks
There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
– Kat Dennings
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
– Angelina Jolie
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
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
– H. G. Wells
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.
– Lili Taylor
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
– Zora Neale Hurston
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
– Samuel Butler
There is nothing glamorous about death.
– Roger Moore
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
– Charles MacKay
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
– Abu Bakr
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
– Stanislav Grof
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