Death Quotes

"Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"I like death. I'm a big fan of it"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"Death is a distant rumor to the young"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death"

Jacqueline Cochran, Aviator

"The truth is sometimes discovered only after death"

Ismail Kadare, Novelist

"When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home"

Robert De Niro, Actor

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter"

Julie Benz, Actress

"Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death"

William Gurnall, Author

"If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears"

Martin Short, Actor

"The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against"

Suzanne Fields

"Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference"

Stephen Evans

"Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain"

John Elway, Athlete

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"Death just shouldn't be a taxable event"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Death is better than slavery"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love"

Dean Koontz, Author

"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives"

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poet

"The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death"

Stephen Evans

"It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on"

Mireille Mathieu, Musician

"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool"

Thomas V. Smith

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