Death Quotes

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

I looked Death right in the face.

Everything that gets born dies.

When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.