Death Quotes

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.