Death Quotes

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.