Quotes on Death

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash in front of me when I'm on my death bed, faced with the real thing.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world.

Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.