Quotes on Death

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

My problem is white comfort with Black death. I am personally tired of white comfort with black death.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

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

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.