Death Quotes

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

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. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.

It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

Death is an absolute marvel.

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.