Death Quotes · Page 298

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

— Alistair Darling

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

— Oscar Wilde

“They found the Jews, bound their wrists and ankles, and threw them into Lake Maggiore, where they were machine-gunned to death.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

— Mark Twain

Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful…

— Casey Affleck

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

— William Shakespeare

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

— Horace

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy.…

— Nick Saban

“It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you can do. Let the thrill…

— C.S. Lewis

“You didn’t perform an autopsy on the first body,” Hambry said. “Actually, I tried, but there wasn’t enough left of Lt. Nyers…

— Jack Conner

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and…

— Milan Kundera

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it;…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“For instance, since none of us lives until age 240, people tend not to think that failing to reach that age makes…

— David Benatar

Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring…

— Frederick Lenz

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. That has always been part of its charm, Laroche loved orchids, but I came to believe…

— Susan Orlean

“Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.”

— Lucretius

I dont fear death because I know theres something greater in store...I fear not living life to the fullest.

— Anonymous

“the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.”

— Charles Bukowski

Cheer up! The worst effects of what we're doing won't be felt until after we're all dead

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at…

— Glenn Hoddle

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

— Margaret Mitchell

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed…

— Al Goldstein

“I thought if you knew. you'd kill him. I nearly did. I nearly killed you too. The trouble with death is -…

— Marie Treanor

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.

— Woody Allen

“The smell of death was thick in the city of Vārāṇasī. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang…

— Shusaku Endo

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

— James Patterson

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

— Blaise Pascal

Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to…

— Katherine Anne Porter

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

— Toni Morrison

“We come and go. We live and die. If we’re lucky, we love and are loved.”

— J.T. Geissinger

The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death

— Patty Duke

One mans loss is another mans gain, One girls pleasure is another girls pain.

— Anonymous

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

— Haruki Murakami

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

— Sun Tzu

Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not…

— Marjorie Fleming

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

— Garrett Fort

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

— Saul Williams