Famous Quotes
- The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone on Death
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
- W. H. Auden on Death
- The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
- Florence Nightingale on Death
- The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
- Kevin Smith on Death
- There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
- Jennifer Lopez on Death
- There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
- Jane Smiley on Death
- There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Death
- There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
- Isabelle Adjani on Death
- There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.
- Peter Mullan on Death
- There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
- Woody Allen on 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 on Death
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana on Death
- There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela on Death
- There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
- Stanislav Grof on Death
- There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
- There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
- Ernest Hemingway on 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.
- Elias Canetti on Death
- There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
- Fran Lebowitz on Death
- There is nothing glamorous about death.
- Roger Moore on Death
- There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
- Samuel Butler on Death
- There is something about poverty that smells like death.
- Zora Neale Hurston on Death
- There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
- Albert Camus on Death
- There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas A. Edison on Death
- There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Death
- There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
- H. G. Wells on Death
- There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.
- Lewis Thomas on Death
- There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
- Angelina Jolie on Death
- There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
- Kat Dennings on Death
- They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
- Adrienne Rich on Death
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Death
- Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
- Samuel Butler on Death
- Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Death
- Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
- Wilson Mizner on Death
- Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
- Taylor Caldwell on Death
- Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- Tennessee Williams on Death
- To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.
- Giada De Laurentiis on Death
- To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. on Death
- To awake from death is to die in peace.
- Douglas Horton on Death
- To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Death
- To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
- Liam Neeson on Death
- To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
- To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
- Jorge Luis Borges on Death
- To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
- Pierre Corneille on Death
- To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck on Death
- To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
- John James Audubon on Death
- To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
- Peter Tosh on Death
- To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- Samuel Butler on Death
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
- To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
- Jean Anouilh on Death
- To some extent I liken slavery to death.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Death
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