Death Quotes

"It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death"

Christy Turlington, Model

"Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it"

Conway Twitty, Musician

"On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"We will persevere, come life or death"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death"

Mary Renault, Novelist

"It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer"

Brian Welch, Musician

"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you"

Georg Hermes, Theologian

"My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes"

Thomas Dewey, Politician

"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide"

Vance Havner

"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain"

Roberto Bolano, Novelist

"Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs"

Michael Baden, Celebrity

"My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself"

Eugene Ormandy, Musician

"The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience"

John George Nicolay, Writer

"This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate"

David Brooks, Politician

"I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time"

Samantha Fox, Model

"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions"

Andre Breton, Poet

"If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death"

Zane Grey, Author

"Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry"

Dinah Shore, Actress

"I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it"

John Grisham, Writer

"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"

Basil C. Hume

"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me"

Paula Cole, Musician

"Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death"

John H. Speke

"I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death"

John Harvey Kellogg, Businessman

"Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death"

Karen Armstrong, Writer

"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death"

John Pearson, Theologian

"Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition"

John Pearson, Theologian

"For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth"

Kim Elizabeth

"I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me"

Stephen Rea, Actor

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