Death Quotes

"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

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

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

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

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"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

"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"

John Clayton

"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death"

Rosalind Russell, Actress

"Give the peasants neither life nor death"

Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman

"Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death"

Edwin M. Stanton, Lawyer

"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 meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can"

Paul Kurtz, Philosopher

"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty"

Nancy Reagan, First Lady

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

Lucan, Poet

"Greetings and death to our enemies"

Dan Aykroyd, Comedian

"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death"

Jacqueline Cochran, Aviator

"Not even old age knows how to love death"

Sophocles, Author

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher