Quotes About Death

Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.

Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus - to that degree I can channel God's life to others.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

The answer is greed. We are dying of greed. I don't know the cure for that.

Their ganna live, until they die.

Vietnamese men, women, and children were dying, starving, being shot, bombed, burned, and napalmed. American soldiers were being shipped home in boxes, coffins, and bags. And the U.S. government was paying an Upper West Side Freudian analyst to explain that the Vietnamese, as a people, had Oedipal issues.

The dead walk into poems all the time Nobody complains

Perhaps death represents the severing of the living organism's connection with the orderly quantum realm, leaving it powerless to resist the randomizing forces of thermodynamics.

is hard to realize that a complete nothing, a zero like that, could kill a man like President Kennedy." Ruby asked how