Death Quotes

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.

An evil life is a kind of death.

They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

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.