Death Quotes · Page 110

“Death is almost never timely, even for the old.”

— Christopher Bram

“Too often, a man lives as if he will never die.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I'm trying beat life because I can't cheat death.

— Jay Z

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

— Bill Paxton

“Legacy is what’s left standing once you aren’t.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hope was all that stood between them and death.”

— Nathaniel Philbrick

If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.

— Anonymous

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

— Karen Thompson Walker

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

— Nikki Sixx

Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.

— Michael Moriarty

“there is no grief more devastating than the grief for what could have been.”

— Kaya McLaren

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

— Epictetus

I am in the land of the dying, and I am soon going to the land of the living.

— John Newton

I'm scared to death to fly commercial I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

— Brett Hull

“We losers don't fear death. For us it's the end of a lifelong losing spell.”

— Dakota Dawn

“When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward…

— Edward T. Welch

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as…

— John F. Kennedy

“Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just…

— Russell Brand

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your…

— Anonymous

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm…

— Rufus Wainwright

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals…

— Nicolas Roeg

Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone…

— Frederick Lenz

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out,…

— David Blunkett

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

— Edith Sitwell

Dearth of diversity leads to death of creativity.

— Tasneem Hameed

Sometimes the biggest enemy you have is yourself.

— Richie Parker

“Caught between life and death, I clung to life.”

— Diogo Mainardi

“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”

— Holly Black

“walk through the valley of the shadow of death,”

— J.L. Drake

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

— Aeschylus

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

— Julia Ward Howe

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

— Mark Twain

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.”

— Bertolt Brecht

“...death is just as beautiful as life has been.”

— Mariama Bâ

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

— John Dryden

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

— Katharine Hepburn

“The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.”

— George MacDonald

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

— Elias Canetti