Death Quotes

Blood and death. That moves me.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

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

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

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