Death Quotes

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.