Death Quotes

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under 'Public Improvements.'

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

I wait for death and journalists.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.