Death Quotes

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.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

An answer is always a form of death.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

I'm working myself to death.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.