Death Quotes

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.