Death Quotes

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

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.

Death is a fearful thing.

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.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

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

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

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

Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

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?

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.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

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.

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.

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

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

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

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.

This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.