Death Quotes

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 ends a life, not a relationship.

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.