Death Quotes

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

The goal of all life is death.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.