Death Quotes

"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that"

"Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it"

John Gilling, Director

"Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death"

Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright

"Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death"

Edna Ferber, Novelist

"There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had"

David Hyde Pierce, Actor

"We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song"

George Lincoln Rockwell, Activist

"If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week"

Evan Hunter, Author

"I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us"

Eric Holder, Public Servant

"Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself"

Elias Hicks, Clergyman

"Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death"

Daryl Hall, Musician

"In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death"

John Linder, Politician

"The sole equality on earth is death"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death"

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Statesman

"The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be"

Julius Rosenberg, Criminal

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"Biography is one of the new terrors of death"

John Arbuthnot, Physicist

"With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"I have had death threats from people with fixations"

Enya, Musician

"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle"

Edna Ferber, Novelist

"Life without Liberty is far worse than death"

Hamid Karzai, Statesman

"The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest"

Erskine Bowles, Businessman

"Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death"

Peter DeFazio, Politician

"Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan"

Ouida, Novelist

"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up"

Leo Kottke, Musician

"I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!"

Kirk Hammett, Musician

"I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death"

George Eads, Actor

"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible"

Georges Simenon, Writer

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