Death Quotes

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.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

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

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

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

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to 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.

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.