Death Quotes

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Death is the cure for all diseases.
Sir Thomas Browne

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone

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

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

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Thornton Wilder

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

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Bateson

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]
Mike Ferguson

It is not cheery to think but nonetheless true that the older you get the closer you must come to Death.
Bell Hooks

He who doesn't fear death dies only once. [You can't die more than once can you?]
Giovanni Falcone

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius

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

Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.
Yoda

Death's sting has a new meaning now that the Times of London is including candid descriptions of human peccadilloes in its obituaries.
Francis X Clines

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift

I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed. [The Cement Garden]
Ian McEwan

'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001

'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000

'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000

'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000

BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16) -Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000

'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'

-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000

'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000

'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid

'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
George W Bush

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored...
Herman Melville

A citizen, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. ( Funeral oration on the death of George Washington.)
Henry Lee

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.
Robert Harris

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country
Dennis Miller

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win! [after announcing the death of Pope Paul VI, 1978]
Phil Rizzuto

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
Susan Sontag

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Elias Canetti

(Of his own death) - so here it is at last, the distinguished thing
Henry 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

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
Philip Massinger

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
Sam Fuller

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

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power
Francois De Salignac Fenelon

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death? (on Sigourney Weaver's concern about the use of guns in Aliens)
James Cameron

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

And death shall have no dominion
Dylan Thomas

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.
Michel Aoun

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

It is, I think, good evidence of life after death (on the quality of debate in the House of Lords)
Donald Soper

Death is the privilege of human nature, And life without it were not worth our taking.
Nicholas Rowe

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life
Thomas Mann

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann

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

Come, let us make love deathless (title of poem)
Herbert Trench



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