Death Quotes

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.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.