Quotes About Death

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.

Up to 2.5 billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and, as a result, proper sanitation. This fact leads to anywhere from 1 to 3 million deaths every year.

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

Certainly on a date, I've been over-focused on, 'Is this person comfortable or not?' and then deciding for them that they are not comfortable and I will help them, which is death for a first date.

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It's the best thing that can happen.

Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

To live is to die.