Quotes About Death

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.

I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.

I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.

I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.

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

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it's the sound of death approaching. Hoovering's OK, but I never in my life wanted to have a lawn and certainly never wanted to mow one.

Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade.

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

Death by starvation is slow.

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

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.