Death Quotes

"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality"

Judy Garland, Actress

"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end"

John Webster, Playwright

"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing"

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

"Debate is the death of conversation"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life"

Lucan, Poet

"Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people"

Tom Baker, Actor

"I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat"

H. G. Bohn

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

"Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"For me, habit is just a synonym for death"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death"

Brian P. Cleary, Author

"Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda"

John Yoo, Educator

"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile"

Julie Burchill, Journalist

"Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death"

Jacques Lipchitz, Sculptor

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