Quotes About Death

I don't know why people have to die, Son. I don't think death was what God wanted. But it sure was part of somebody's plan. I believe God is big enough and powerful enough to use it. There's more going on here than we can see.

This magical thinking, this idea that human and personal progress is somehow inevitable, leads to political passivity. … It has turned whole nations, such as the United States, into self-consuming machines of death.

We are in the grip of what Kierkegaard called sickness unto death - the numbing of the soul by despair that leads to moral and physical debasement.

is death I defy, not my own death, but the vast enterprise of death. The dark, primeval lusts for power and personal wealth, the hypermasculine language of war and patriotism, used to justify the slaughter of the weak and the innocent and to mock justice. I do

Collapse created a dreamworld "where men live fighting one another about elaborate shadows and quarreling for power, as if that were a great prize."116 Once caught up in the frenzied Danse Macabre, it became impossible to escape until, as it always does, death worked its dark magic, dooming a once vibrant civilization to extinction.

'Misery' left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be 'Kathy 'Misery' Bates Is Dead.'

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

Public crises, particularly those concerning life and death, offer demagogues ample opportunity to amass more power.

Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Mortality defines the human condition.

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

We are mortals, we will die one day.

I certainly don't want to die playing a round of golf. And I don't want to die like Elvis. That's all they remember about him - the most beautiful man on the planet.