Death Quotes

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Birth was the death of him.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

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.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

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