Top 999 Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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.

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

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

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

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

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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.

I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.

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

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

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

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Dad was wiped from our lives. The day after he died, every photo of him disappeared from the house. It was as if he'd never existed. Me and my brothers weren't even allowed to go to his funeral. His death was made absolute.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

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

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

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

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.