Top 999 Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.

Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

If you want a name, you have to fight death.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

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.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Everything that gets born dies.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

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

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.

At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what's really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we've done things to be successful, we have the formula and can institutionalize it. That can be death.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Grumbling is the death of love.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

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.

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

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

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

I eat death threats for breakfast!

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

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

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

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time.

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