Death Quotes

"It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one"

Philip Massinger, Poet

"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence"

Byron White, Judge

"Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing"

Bret Harte, Author

"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"We do not celebrate the death of our enemies"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue"

Kevin Smith, Director

"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row"

Gary Bauer, Public Servant

"Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns"

Marguerite Young, Author

"I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes"

Eric Roberts, Actor

"Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats"

Henry Thomas, Actor

"I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law"

Byron White, Judge

"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors"

James Woods, Actor

"The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true"

Hugh Sidey, Journalist

"Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable"

Eydie Gorme, Musician

"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"Death does not exist"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death"

Francis Picabia, Artist

"And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"Death is the beginning of something"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death"

Courtney Love, Musician

"It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires"

Ed Markey, Politician

"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death"

Harry A. Blackmun, Judge

"I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia"

Cher, Musician

"And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death"

Casey Affleck, Actor

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