Quotes about Death

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”

“The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.”

“I'm gonna live till I die.”

“Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.”

“A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.”

“I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.”

“Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.”

“In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.”

“Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.”

“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”

“I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.”

“I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.”

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”

“A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.”

“I eat death threats for breakfast!”

“Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.”

“Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

“The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.”

“What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.”

“For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.”

“Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.”