Death Quotes

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Death does not exist.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.