Death Quotes

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

Normality is death.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Death is better than slavery.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.