Death Quotes

When we play "Angel of Death", it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

We will persevere, come life or death.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Grumbling is the death of love.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.