Death Quotes

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

I wait for death and journalists.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

Inactivity is death.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

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.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

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!

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.