Death Quotes

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

Failure too is a form of death.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.