Quotes About Death

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.

Death is dancing me ragged.

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

It is the responsibility of people like me and people who believe in the true Islam to stand up and say, that blasphemy is not punishable by death.

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

Didacticism is the death of art.

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.