Death Quotes

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

What will survive of us is love.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

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

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

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.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Our life is made by the death of others.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

Everything is design. Everything!

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

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

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.

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

Grief is itself a medicine.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

On a day of burial there is no perspective—for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was—to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

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

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

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

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?

If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind — and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

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.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

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.

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Marriage is the death of hope.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Some people would rather die than think.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Only the young die good.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Life without a friend is like death without a witness

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

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.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?....

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

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

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.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

The goal of all life is death.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live — there is no greater lover than this.

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

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.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

Perfectionism is slow death.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under 'Public Improvements.'

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Birth is the beginning of death

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

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

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

Give me liberty or give me death.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

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.

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

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

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

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.

How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, - Avant d'y voir notre linceul)

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world...

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

Immortality - a fate worse than death.

The sole equality on earth is death.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

All say, "˜how hard it is that we have to die' — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Life 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.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

The skeleton is the death: it’s in our body... (Le squelette, c'est la mort : - Il est dans notre corps...)

Death is a good Hotel : you are a guest at any Time. (Un bon hôtel est la mort. - Elle nous accueille à toute heure)

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness — by making the ultimate escape from life. — No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

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.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it.

Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age?

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Debate is the death of conversation.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.