Death Quotes

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.