Death Quotes

"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"Death is the tyrant of the imagination"

Barry Cornwall, Poet

"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"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable"

Graham Chapman, Comedian

"For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"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!"

Marcus Valerius Martial, Poet

"If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it"

Marcus Valerius Martial, Poet

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation"

Margaret Mahy, Author

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

Layne Staley, Musician

"When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it"

John Cusack, Actor

"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death"

Hesiod, Poet

"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"

Layne Staley, Musician

"If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse"

George Wald, Scientist

"Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community"

Howard Coble, Politician

"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"

Martha Beck, Author

"Our business is with life, not death"

George Wald, Scientist

"To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father"

Johnny Cash, Musician

"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"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"

Keith Richards, Musician

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