Death Quotes

"Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead."

"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."

"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."

"The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune."

"Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity."

"You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean."

"Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create - in one generation - closing the gap. That's why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real."

"The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen."

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

"Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed."

"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."

"Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!"

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that."

"Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight."

"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."

"I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas."

"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."

"Life is but a moment, death also is but another."

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."

"Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak."

"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."

"The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success."

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom."

"Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks."

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."

"If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas."

"The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour."

"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."

"We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God."

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

"It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death."

"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever."

"You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel."

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

"Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time."

"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."

"No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."

"We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end."

"No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually."

"I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway."

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

"Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day."

"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."