Death Quotes

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

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

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

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

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

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.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

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

To awake from death is to die in peace.

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

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

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

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.

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.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Death's in the good-bye.

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

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.