300 Quotes on Death

• NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  Author: Xun Zi

• No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

  Author: Citium Zeno

• I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

  Author: Loretta Young

• Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

  Author: Edward Young

• Virtue alone has majesty in death.

  Author: Edward Young

• I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

  Author: Angus Young

• Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

  Author: John Yoo

• Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

  Author: William Wycherley

• My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

  Author: James Woods

• Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

• In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

• Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

  Author: Debra Winger

• Belief is the death of intelligence.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her.

  Author: Kevin Williamson

• Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

  Author: Tennessee Williams

• I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

  Author: Michelle Williams

• Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

  Author: Kit Williams

• We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

  Author: Thornton Wilder

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

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Biography lends to death a new terror.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

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

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death.

  Author: John Whitehead

• Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

  Author: Ryan White

• Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

  Author: Ron White

• The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

  Author: Byron White

• To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

  Author: Byron White

• Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

  Author: Franz Werfel

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  Author: Ida Wells

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  Author: H. Wells

• More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

  Author: Jerry Weller

• Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

  Author: John Wayne

• Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

  Author: Roger Waters

• I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

  Author: Wendy Wasserstein

• 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.

  Author: Marcia Wallace

• Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

  Author: Larry Wall

• In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

  Author: George Wald

• I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

  Author: Peter Vries

• Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

  Author: Voltaire

• I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

  Author: Voltaire

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

  Author: Don Vliet

• Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

  Author: Virgil

• The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

  Author: Ben Vereen

• I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

  Author: Alvar Vaca

• One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

  Author: Alvar Vaca

• Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

  Author: Lars Ulrich

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

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

  Author: Conway Twitty

• Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

  Author: Mark Twain

• On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

  Author: Scott Turow

• It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

  Author: Ivan Turgenev

• I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

  Author: Harriet Tubman

• A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

  Author: Robin Trower

• Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

  Author: Peter Tosh

• The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

  Author: Ernst Toller

• My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

  Author: John Thorn

• Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

  Author: John Thorn

• But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

  Author: Henry Thomas

• There is no more final end than death.

  Author: John Thaw

• I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

  Author: John Tesh

• Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

  Author: Tecumseh

• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Author: Tecumseh

• It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

  Author: Norman Tebbit

• In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

  Author: Edwin Teale

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  Author: Rabindranath Tagore

• The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

  Author: John Synge

• Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

  Author: Algernon Swinburne

• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Better be killed than frightened to death.

  Author: Robert Surtees

• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  Author: William Styron

• There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

  Author: Peter Straub

• Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

  Author: John Strachan

• The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

  Author: John Strachan

• We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

  Author: Michael Stipe

• There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

  Author: Mary Stewart

• McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

  Author: Jackie Stewart

• Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  Author: Wallace Stevens

• Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.

  Author: Howard Stern

• Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

  Author: James Stephens

• True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

  Author: Stendhal

• It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.

  Author: Rod Steiger

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

  Author: Peter Steele

• Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

  Author: Michael Steele

• I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.

  Author: Morning Star

• 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.

  Author: Edwin Stanton

• When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

  Author: Paul Stanley

• If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

  Author: Layne Staley

• Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

  Author: Layne Staley

• The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

  Author: Edmund Spenser

• Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

  Author: John Speke

• I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

  Author: James Spader

• For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

  Author: Sophocles

• For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

  Author: Sophocles

• For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

  Author: Susan Sontag

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

  Author: Solon

• Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

  Author: Socrates

• 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.

  Author: Socrates

• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  Author: Sam Snead

• No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

  Author: Thomas Smith

• I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

  Author: Robert Smith

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  Author: L. Smith

• You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

  Author: Charles Smith

• Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

  Author: Alexander Smith

• If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

  Author: Alexander Smith

• His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

  Author: Red Skelton

• In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

  Author: Paul Simon

• The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.

  Author: Julian Simon

• He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

  Author: William Simms

• The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

  Author: William Simms

• Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

  Author: Andrew Shue

• I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

  Author: Martin Short

• Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

  Author: Dinah Shore

• Immortality - a fate worse than death.

  Author: Edgar Shoaff

• Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

  Author: James Shirley

• The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

  Author: James Shirley

• On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

  Author: Hu Shih

• Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

  Author: Mark Shields

• 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.

  Author: Brooke Shields

• Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

  Author: Michael Shermer

• Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

  Author: Mary Shelley

• Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

  Author: Fulton Sheen

• It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

  Author: Christopher Shays

• Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

  Author: Jonathan Shapiro

• But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• The valiant never taste of death but once.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Death is a fearful thing.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Death's in the good-bye.

  Author: Anne Sexton

• The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

  Author: George Sewell

• Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

  Author: Eric Sevareid

• All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

  Author: Ernest Seton

• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

  Author: Compay Segundo

• A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

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

  Author: Curt Schilling

• That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

  Author: Michael Schiavo

• If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

  Author: Dorothy Sayers

• What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

  Author: John Saul

• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

  Author: Siegfried Sassoon

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

  Author: George Santayana

• For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

  Author: George Santayana

• She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

  Author: Stan Sakai

• 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  Author: George Ryan

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

  Author: George Ryan

• The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

  Author: Bobby Rush

• Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

  Author: Miguel Ruiz

• To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.

  Author: J. Rowling

• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  Author: J. Rowling

• No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

  Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

  Author: Georges Rouault

• But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.

  Author: Joel Rosenberg

• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Death is a distant rumor to the young.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

  Author: Will Rogers

• My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.

  Author: George Rockwell

• On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

  Author: Eric Roberts

• I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

  Author: Paul Ricoeur

• Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

  Author: Paul Ricoeur

• For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.

  Author: Jef Richards

• My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• 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.

  Author: Janet Reno

• I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

  Author: Janet Reno

• I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

  Author: Ruth Rendell

• It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

  Author: Mary Renault

• The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

  Author: Ernest Renan

• We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

  Author: Theodor Reik

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  Author: Oliver Reed

• Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

  Author: Henry Reed

• I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

  Author: Nancy Reagan

• I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

  Author: Nancy Reagan

• I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

  Author: Joseph Ratzinger

• We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

  Author: Tony Randall

• I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

  Author: Jean Racine

• My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

  Author: Jean Racine

• We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

  Author: Yitzhak Rabin

• Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

  Author: Francois Rabelais

• After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

  Author: Salvatore Quasimodo

• The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

  Author: Salvatore Quasimodo

• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

  Author: Dennis Quaid

• What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

  Author: Mario Puzo

• If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

  Author: J. Priestley

• All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

  Author: Katie Price

• Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

  Author: Terry Prachett

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  Author: Edgar Poe

• Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

  Author: Plato

• Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

  Author: Plato

• Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

  Author: Plato

• Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

  Author: Luigi Pirandello

• Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

  Author: Francis Picabia

• Death does not exist.

  Author: Edith Piaf

• Death is the beginning of something.

  Author: Edith Piaf

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  Author: Edith Piaf

• We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

  Author: John Phillips

• The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.

  Author: Daniel Petrie

• Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

  Author: Ellis Peters

• It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

  Author: Brian Perkins

• We put the Children to death... by throwing them overboard and shooting out their brains in the water.

  Author: George Percy

• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  Author: William Penn

• I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

  Author: Bill Paxton

• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

  Author: Ron Paul

• Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

  Author: Jean Paul

• The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

  Author: Jean Paul

• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  Author: Floyd Patterson

• The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

  Author: Theodore Parker

• Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

  Author: Alan Parker

• He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

  Author: Ovid

• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  Author: Ovid

• Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

  Author: Ouida

• I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

  Author: Patton Oswalt

• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

  Author: Julia Ormond

• Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

  Author: Eugene Ormandy

• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  Author: J. Oppenheimer

• 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.

  Author: Susan Oliver

• Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

  Author: Claes Oldenburg

• I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

  Author: Alfred Nobel

• When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

  Author: Robert Niro

• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Author: Anais Nin

• People living deeply have no fear of death.

  Author: Anais Nin

• Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

• The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

  Author: Florence Nightingale

• The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.

  Author: John Nicolay

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