Death Quotes

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

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.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.