Death Quotes

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Blood and death. That moves me.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

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.