Quotes About Death

Of course, for a lot of people, death was a welcome change. Grinding poverty takes the edge off most things, including life.

Given a long enough life, cancer will eventually kill you—unless you die first of something else.

Miracles occur, or people die the next day.

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.

I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

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.

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

I can't die but once.

To have died once is enough.

My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'

I remember one time watching a bird snatch a dragonfly out of midair and thinking, 'Gee, life can come to an end - crunch! - just like that.'

No parents deserve to see their only child die.

Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct.

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

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

When you hear 'From the Other Side,' it's like being on an operating table. Suddenly, you're on the ceiling looking down at the doctors who are fighting for you. Are you gonna get a second chance or not?

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.