Death Quotes

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

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

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

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

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.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

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

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

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.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

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

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

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.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Give me liberty or give me death.

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

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