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Death Quotes
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
Jai Rodriguez
Being
Death
Gay
Mother
Thought
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
Death
Fear
‘Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
Marquis de Sade
Death
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey
Death
Houses
Success
Successful
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling
Adventure
Death
Mind
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
Bryant H. McGill
Death
Desire
Hope
Life
Longing
The basis of tragedy is man’s helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man’s helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
Comedy
Death
Disease
Greed
Love
Lust
Man
Tragedy
Vanity
War
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe
Argument
Charity
Christ
Crime
Death
Men
Religion
I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
Hedy Lamarr
Death
Destiny
Earth
Life
Safety
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters
Blind
Body
Death
Indifference
Night
Pain
Shadows
Will
World
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.
John Millington Synge
Complaint
Death
Grief
Woman
Years
Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
Kit Williams
Death
Lady
Today
The priest is Christ’s slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
Arthur Middleton
Christ
Death
Freedom
God
Life
Needs
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious – and therefore immoral – I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
George Ryan
Death
Believe me, if a man doesn’t know death, he doesn’t know life.
William A. Drake
Death
Life
Man
Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.
Conway Twitty
Death
Kiss
Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.
Victoria de los Angeles
Death
Andrew Wood’s death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
Layne Staley
Death
Drugs
Wood
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.
Antonin Scalia
Abortion
Constitution
Death
Flexibility
Idea
Living
Right
Want
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Alfred Nobel
Death
Idea
Peace
Promotion
Results
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don’t know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
Stephen Rea
Death
Dying
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George Carlin
Death
Time
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
Francis Picabia
Death
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
George Wald
Death
Evolution
Fact
Invention
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu Shih
Achievement
Death
Immortality
Knowledge
Self
Don’t be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it’s just death.
Lena Horne
Death
Nothing
In an artwork you’re always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst
Death
Decisions
Life
We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.
George Lincoln Rockwell
Death
Fight
Hell
March
Right
Song
Victory
In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
Doc Hastings
Business
Death
Family
Property
Tax
Taxes
Time
Value
Will
Years
Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
Buddy Holly
Career
Death
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus
Death
Desire
Gifts
Gods
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mohandas Gandhi
Death
Faith
Fear
Religion
Religious
Want
The prime minister found something hopeful in the man’s eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.
Hugh Sidey
Death
Decisions
Eyes
Life
Man
People
World
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can’t afford, they are condemning good people to death.
Tammy Bruce
Americans
Care
Death
Health
People
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Bill Shankly
Death
Football
Life
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Alexander Dumas
Death
Order
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
Christy Turlington
Death
Education
Succeed
Tools
Will
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
Children
Death
Fear
Men
It was very hard for all of us. It’s still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years… it’s unbelievable.
Eydie Gorme
Death
Friends
Years
I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Balloons
Children
Death
Graduation
Sky
But death’s acquisitive instincts will win.
Harold Brodkey
Death
Will
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Claes Oldenburg
Chicago
Death
Elegance
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler
Death
Mercy
Will
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
Ivan Turgenev
Death
Old
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brothers
Death
Nothing
Sisters
Spirit
To politicize a man’s tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn’t it?
Tucker Carlson
Death
Man
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne
Death
Life
Living
Shadow
Shadows
Celebrity is death – celebrity – that’s the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Glenn Close
Actor
Celebrity
Death
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Soren Kierkegaard
Death
Enjoyment
Insects
Life
We’re also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That’s something to boast about, isn’t it?
Tony Randall
Country
Death
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