Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Ozick

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

Cynthia Ozick

Death persecutes before it executes.

Colonel Sanders

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Cornelius Nepos

That evil can never be great which is the last.

Cornelius Nepos

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Cormac McCarthy

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

Cormac McCarthy

Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

Cormac McCarthy

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

Cormac McCarthy

They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

David Lloyd George

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

Confucius

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

Daniel Webster

I still live. Pretty.

David Gerrold

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

David Gerrold

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

David Bohm

From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such a way that individual members last a certain time. Perhaps a certain kind of species would be better able to survive if the individuals didn't last too long. Other kinds could last longer.

Anna Nicole Smith

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

Angela Carter

The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.

Andrew Greeley

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

Andrew Jackson

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

Amiri Baraka

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.

Andy Rooney

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

Andy Warhol

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

E. O. Wilson

Kids will get home and nag their parents to death about getting a smoke detector,

He knew that death was a possibility and he didn't care,

Gross abusers of e-mail risk exposure to public ridicule as well as the economic death penalty.

George Sewell

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Thomas Malory

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

Myles Munroe

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Lauren Bacall

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

Here, the president seeks not merely to detain temporarily but to dispense life imprisonment and death through a judicial system of his own design.

Golf is such a wonderful game. I love it to death.