Death Quotes

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.