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Quotes About Death

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.
~ Mira Grant
I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.
~ Philip Pullman
Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.
~ Phillips Brooks
I've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end.
~ Rebecca Godfrey
The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.
~ Richard Rohr
I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.
~ Ricky Gervais
If you want to Success in your life, Just remember two things1) Your God2) Your Death
~ Fahad Rashiq
I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
~ Louis XVI of France
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
~ Cesare Beccaria
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
~ Al Capone
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
~ Plato
I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.
~ Adolf Hitler
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
~ Otto von Bismarck
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
~ Alain Badiou
War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.
~ Harry Patch
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
~ Haile Selassie
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
~ Clement Attlee
Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
~ Willy Brandt
Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that we sing out loud the message, 'Love forever.'
~ Yayoi Kusama
Killing is the payoff of war.
~ Morley Safer
It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.
~ George Friedman