Death Quotes

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

In every parting there is an image of death.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.