Death Quotes

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.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.