Death Quotes

"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

"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying"

David Thewlis, Actor

"Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!"

Mark Shields, Journalist

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

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination"

George Meredith, Novelist

"I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution"

Donald Johanson, Scientist

"I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy"

Judy Collins, Musician

"Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end"

Eamon de Valera, Statesman

"Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man"

James Dean, Actor

"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

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

Bodhidharma, Leader

"Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will"

Bodhidharma, Leader

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

Bodhidharma, Leader

"I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death"

Elton John, Musician

"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death"

Ernest Renan, Philosopher

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