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Quotes About Death

If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.
~ Abigail Brown
Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.
~ Patrick Pearse
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
~ Gavin de Becker
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.
~ Leila Aboulela
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.
~ Gary Paulsen
U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
~ Samantha Shannon
If the Arab Spring was a large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda's ideology, the death of bin Laden was an equally large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda the organization.
~ Peter Bergen
When we are talking about services that literally mean the difference between life or death and the future financial stability of our state, we should be working in a collaborative manner with a common goal - to make sure the people of Louisiana are cared for in the most efficient way possible.
~ John Bel Edwards
A line of duty death, whether an officer, special agent, or professional staff employee, is personal to the FBI, and it's personal to me as Director.
~ Christopher A. Wray
Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat.
~ Munshi Premchand
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
I saw a lot of children who were in the latest stages of malaria. Those kids died very quickly.
~ Tu Youyou
Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.
~ Jessica Capshaw
People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
~ J. Smith-Cameron
I watched 'Kojak' religiously with my father. It was a great bonding time. He loved shows where the stakes were high. Life and death, justice prevailing, things like that. I think that helped set me on the path to what I do now.
~ Michael Connelly
When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
~ Arthur Smith
It becomes an emperor to die standing.
~ Titus Flavius Vespasian
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
~ Joseph Hall
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
~ Mark Shields