Death Quotes · Page 547

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

— David Ogilvy

“He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.

— Billy Graham

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

— Doug McClure

I feel like if you boil supernatural ghost films down to their core essence, they're really about death.

— Leigh Whannell

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

— Steven Morrissey

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

— Virginia Woolf

There's three things in life that's certain: Death, taxes, and 85 will always be open.

— Chad Ochocinco

“[He taught her] that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life, without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we will age,…

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

“I don't feel so sad when somebody dies, Julio, because they fly away to explore the stars and planets. When it's our…

— Gilbert Hernández

Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and…

— Swami Vivekananda

“I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift,…

— Anne Frank

“The moon fled eastward like a frightened dove, while the stars changed their places in the heavens, like a disbanding army. 'Where…

— Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

“Then without any warning the car stopped. They were there. "The ride's over," someone said. "End of the ride." For a moment…

— Cornell Woolrich

“The Death of Allegory I am wondering what became of all those tall abstractions that used to pose, robed and statuesque, in…

— Billy Collins

It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order…

— Max Frisch

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

— Buffalo Bill

We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our…

— Sorin Cerin

“There was something about his grandfather's death, about men who love their sons . . .”

— Walter Mosley

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

— Sheri S. Tepper

Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

— Anonymous

“For a long time he watched her. When she was lost to sight, he was almost a little moved. But that's life,…

— Anonymous

You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.

— Frederick Lenz

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life,…

— Pearl S. Buck

Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.

— Judy Tatelbaum

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to…

— Prince Philip

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

— Orlando Gibbons

My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

— George Washington

Sick of living but scared to die! Tired of fighting but to scared to stop!

— Anonymous

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be…

— Christopher Paolini

I hate hospitals, William. That's why I kept voting for those death panels. -Sue

— Glee

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get…

— Thomas Browne

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

— Jon Landau

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

— Tony Harrison

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.

— Octavio Paz

“He looked like a charcoal drawing of a man. In death, he was blacks and whites.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.

— Oscar Romero

“I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I…

— Ani DiFranco

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest…

— Malcolm X

“To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth.”

— Sorin Cerin