Death Quotations | Page 5

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

I've got two sons whom I love to death, and I love them differently.

I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen.

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

The people, when they say 'Death to America!' - do you know what they are really saying? What they mean to say relates to the aggressive policies of the U.S. and intervention and meddling by the U.S.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

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

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

I know that for me, whenever I'm in a situation where there's death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

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

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.

My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Even though we know the origin of diseases, panic sweeps. It's one thing that frightens us, because it's your health and your body - it's more like a tangible threat; it's not like a foreign enemy you can fight. That was really what was uppermost to many of us whilst making 'Black Death.'

Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented.

My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

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

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.