Death Quotations | Page 4

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Death is not the end; it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science - constant and eternal seeking.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

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.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we've always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can't or don't.

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

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

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

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.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.

My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.

If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

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

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

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

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because there's somebody out there who can see that all sickness isn't unto death. That it's something you can't change at that point in time, so you just got to go with it. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed of looking at yourself.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Like the pro-slavery forces who invaded Kansas, the pro-abortion forces in Washington and elsewhere want us to believe that abortion is not murder; that being born is worse than death; that the unborn baby is property, not a person.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Ever since Obama's election team and media thugs made me famous for asking a simple question in 2008, I've had more than my share of death threats by people who are by definition at least a little crazy.

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.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.

The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

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

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.