Death Quotes

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Death is the beginning of something.

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Death does not exist.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.