Death Quotes

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.