Quotes About Death

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

I wanted to say I don't agree with capital punishment.

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

At some major events - your birth and death, for example - while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

None of us know what comes after death. All of us, to some extent, are probably mystified or maybe a little bit frightened of it.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.

People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.

I done been to so many funerals.