Death Quotes

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Death is not my best subject.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

In every parting there is an image of death.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.