Death Quotes

"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"I came face to face with death at thirteen years old"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"A certain death of an artist is overconfidence"

Robin Trower, Musician

"It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'"

Thomas Arnold, Educator

"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death"

Len G. Murray, Lawyer

"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it"

Suzanne Fields

"Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy"

Stephen Evans

"Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"Failure too is a form of death"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that"

William Kidd, Explorer

"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death"

Ernestine L. Rose

"But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"I don't want to hear about my death"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians"

Patton Oswalt, Comedian

"I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

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

Huey Newton, Activist

"The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level"

Ric Keller, Politician

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

Bobby Scott, Politician

"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

"Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row"

Danny Glover, Actor

"Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards"

Katie Price, Model

"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all"

John Berger, Artist

"I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death"

Alveda King, Clergyman

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