Death Quotes

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.
Elliott Smith

A tomb now him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
George Kennedy

To go out and murder innocent civilians.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
James Hetfield

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
Olive Schreiner

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.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
Angela Davis

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

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

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevara

Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
Che Guevara

The lack of numbers - missing on everything from how much we are spending to how many are being killed or wounded - is just stunning for this day and age.
Peter Singer

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
Jane Fonda

Who wants to live forever?
Freddie Mercury

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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Jean Anouilh

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
Anne Boleyn

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Ralph W. Sockman

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

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
Jeanne Moreau

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
Jennifer Lopez

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
Henny Youngman

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

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

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

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.

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.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
Thomas Wolfe

Give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
William Lloyd Garrison

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

We must love each other or die.

Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? ... He could be research. A human textbook. 'Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

You should have died when I killed you.
John Le Carre

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
Ron White

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
Kate Chopin

Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death.
John Newton

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.