Death Quotes

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.