Quotes About Death

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

Mercy often inflicts death.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

I've had seven balls of light come off a UFO...explain to me telepathically we are all one and there's no such thing as death.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

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.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.