Death Quotes

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.