Death Quotes

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans.

When we play "Angel of Death", it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

We will persevere, come life or death.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.