Top 999 Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

I don't believe in death.

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

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

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.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

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

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

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

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

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.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.

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

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

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

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

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

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

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

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

Inactivity is death.