Quotes About Death

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

Americans have a choice to make: higher taxes or fewer health care entitlements. We'll probably have to choose both. But as each of us marches toward death, we can't pretend we can have all the health care we need, paid for by taxing Bill Gates a little more.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

Everyone is born, and has a death date. The days in between are meant to live, which is why I am not afraid of anyone.

You're either living or you're dead.

Those who live, live off the dead.

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

When you dead, you dead.

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

I'd rather be dead than dying.

War is about dead people.

My thatha's death was the biggest blow I've dealt with in all my life. I have never seen death in my family, especially not of someone who's so close to me... I might be this big guy from the outside, but I'm very sensitive when it comes to my family.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.