Top 999 Death Quotes & Sayings

It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

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

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

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

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

In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

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

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

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.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

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

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

Our life is made by the death of others.

We will persevere, come life or death.

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

I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

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

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love's an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can't keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that's death for me - I like to be surprised.

Imogen Poots loves music to death and can literally name 300 bands that she listens to, that you've never heard. She's so heavy into the underground music scene. When she's speaking on music, she means it.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

All us got a due date. All us got a death sentence. One day, we gonna die.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?