There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
Jennifer LopezLife is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death
Desmond MorrisSenator [Coleman], in everything I said about Iraq I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 have paid with their lives, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies
George GallowayMaking a discovery may never come or it may take a long time and only come to fruition after your death - it is a privilege to make a real difference in your own life time.
Edward JennerThe Nemesis of excess in athletics is professionalism, which is the death of all true sport.
E N GardinerDon't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
Colin PowellMan would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
Albert EinsteinI think it is true what they say that retirement is the death of some people, so more and more people are choosing to do work of some sort when they have retired.
Anna HarrisonLife and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao TzuI balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
W B YeatsWithout fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis MumfordOld age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman MelvilleLife is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac AsimovIt is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
OuidaAnd death makes equal the high and low
John HeywoodIf we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse KarrCowards die many times before their deaths; The valient never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.
Aldous HuxleyOf all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Henry Ward Beecher After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais NinBest while you have it use your breath,
There is no drinking after death. (The Bloody Brother)
John FletcherFor precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
William ShakespeareIt's about death as much as it is about life [on gardening]
Germaine GreerDeath is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W H AudenBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochLife without the courage for death is slavery.
SenecaAlexander sees everything as just a struggle against the inevitable, which is death.
Thomas H ChurchLiterally, the society we humans have set up and perpetuate brings about not only the suffering of some people, it can exat an incalculable cost - untimely death.
Jason MercheyEvery one has before his eyes an end which he pursues till death; but for many that end is a feather which they blow before them in the air.
Robert NicollBravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar N BradleyBecause I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
and Immortality..
Emily DickinsonI was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II.
Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Kofi AnnanRouse yourself! Sit up!
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
Do not let the king of death, seeing you are careless,
lead you astray and dominate you.
BuddhaPersonally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl SaganJames Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and though about life and death
Ian FlemingThe fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph AddisonAll interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas MannThere is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René MaheuI put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Leviathan)
Thomas HobbesGrumbling is the death of love.
Marlene DietrichOur fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDeath is the mother of beauty.
Wallace StevensTo-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5
William ShakespeareAnything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
Betty BenderIt’s a very sad day and the end of an era. [on the death of Robert Sangster]
Lester PiggottAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing
Maurice MaeterlinckWhen you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
Dennis QuaidIt is an immense loss of a great comedian but more importantly a good friend [on the death of Dave Allen]
Jimmy TarbuckJust like Eric Morecambe, you feel like you've lost a dear friend [on the death of Ronnie Barker]
Peter Kay
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