Death Quotes

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Death is the beginning of something.

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.