Death Quotes

"In technology, if you stand still, you die."

"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."

"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him."

"Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death."

"I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five."

"If it's not growing, it's going to die."

"We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation."

"They that die by famine die by inches."

"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."

"The report of my death was an exaggeration."

"I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die."

"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire."

"Being born, we die; our end is consequent on our beginning."

"I live for now, not for what happens after I die."

"I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain."

"The die is cast."

"Cowards die many times before their actual deaths."

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."

"Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?"

"Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living."

"Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan."

"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."

"Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be."

"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead."

"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians."

"The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing."

"Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things."

"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden."

"It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either."

"Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs."

"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared."

"'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course."

"A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare."

"The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so."

"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers."

"Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing."

"When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place."

"The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide."

"As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid."

"For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever."

"Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix."

"We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can't be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don't save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved."

"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."

"As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well."

"No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human beings. If mistakes are made, you figure out that you're going to live."

"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."

"There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever."

"With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway."

"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."