Death Quotes

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Death is the most blessed dream.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.