Death Quotes

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

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

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death.

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.