Quotes About Death

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.