Death Quotes

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When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
Dennis Quaid

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
Albert Einstein

Death is delightful. Death is dawn,
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light.
Joaquin Miller

Every parting is a foretaste of death,
and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz

Death tugs at my ear and says: 'Live, I am coming'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and though about life and death
Ian Fleming

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René Maheu

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai E Stevenson

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.(Death shall have no dominion)
Dylan Thomas

Nastase is a Hamlet who wants to play a clown, but he is no good at it; his gags are bad, his timing is terrible and he never know how he's going over the top - which last drawback is the kiss of death for a comic.
Clive James

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
Ouida

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain
Sarah Palin

The militia were clamouring for the death of all guerrillas, and people were afraid to come near me...
Jesse James

Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death
Louis XIV Of France

For life is nearer every day to death
Phaedrus

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.
Paul Stanley

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.
Fran Lebowitz

Nay, why should I fear Death,
Who gives us life, and in exchange takes breath?
Frederic Lawrence Knowles

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Henry Ward Beecher

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead

Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - The Carriage held but just Ourselves - and Immortality..
Emily Dickinson

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai Stevenson

I could have another moan but I'm sick to death of my own whingeing.
Steve Bruce

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one (Pale Fire)
Vladimir Nabokov

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
Margaret Mitchell

Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.
William Henley

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.
Peter F Drucker

So little done, so much to do (on the day of his death)
Cecil Rhodes

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

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
Clive Barnes

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems [of death]
Clive Barker

Death's but a path that must be trod,
If man would ever pass to God
Thomas Parnell

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young

This CGI bullshit is the death knell of cinema. If I'd wanted all that computer game bullshit, I'd have stuck my dick in a Nintendo.
Quentin Tarantino

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

This is a terrible tragedy, not just for those who knew and cared for him, but also for political life in this country, which will be all the poorer. [on the death of Robin Cook]
David Blunkett

Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.
Colin Ingleby-McKenzie

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
Joseph Stalin

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman

While man is growing, life is in decrease.
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb:
Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Edward Young

It’s a very sad day and the end of an era. [on the death of Robert Sangster]
Lester Piggott

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young

How do they know? - (On being told of the death of Calvin Coolidge)
Dorothy Parker

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
Edward Young

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney Love

I 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 Annan



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