Death Quotes

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.