Death Quotes

"I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death"

Curt Schilling, Athlete

"If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility"

Antonin Scalia, Judge

"Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body"

Susan Griffin, Writer

"I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid"

Ruth Rendell, Writer

"There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that"

Rose McGowan, Actress

"My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence"

Jai Rodriguez, Actor

"The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"Death calls ye to the crowd of common men"

James Shirley, Dramatist

"Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that"

Philip Kaufman, Director

"The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom"

Montgomery Clift, Actor

"Death by starvation is slow"

Mary Austin, Writer

"And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned"

Lynn Redgrave, Actress

"Early this morning, I signed my death warrant"

Michael Collins, Leader

"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her"

Kevin Williamson, Author

"The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge"

Simon Greenleaf, Judge

"Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain"

Thomas Malory, Author

"The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic"

Ben Vereen, Actor

"Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have"

Fred G. Gosman

"I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying"

Derek Jarman, Director

"Psychiatry causes so much death"

Kate Millett, Activist

"Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash"

Ruth Ann Minner, Politician

"I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death"

Beth Gibbons, Musician

"So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we had to do on stage, stronger. We got very much involved in what we were doing"

Tom Bosley, Actor

"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway"

Paul Stanley, Musician

"Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death"

Tom McMillan, Politician

"Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death"

George Ryan, Politician

"You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life"

Jon Crosby, Musician

"Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events"

Thomas Lynch, Politician

"Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down"

Michael Schiavo, Celebrity

"Love's stronger than fear and death"

Steve Hackett, Writer

"In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive"

Richard Eberhart, Poet

"The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations"

Kit Bond, Politician

"The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses"

Kit Bond, Politician

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