Death Quotes

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.