Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yes, it was positive, she died from avian influenza. We have 22 deaths now.

Charles Bukowski

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

We have received confirmation. (The death toll) is now nine.

John Grisham

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.

Bruce Springsteen

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

Bruce Springsteen

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

Bruce Springsteen

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

Bruce Springsteen

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

Bruce Springsteen

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Boyd Rice

Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your head on the end of a stick is a strong incentive toward 'visualizing world peace'.

Jane Hirshfield

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

James Whitcomb Riley

I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn For an old-time step, and the glad return, Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here. Think of him still as the same. I say, He is not dead - he is just away.

Juvenal

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Juvenal

Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

Juvenal

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

Knute Nelson

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

Kerry King

When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

Antonin Artaud

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Antonin Artaud

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Dennis Miller

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

Edgar Cayce

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.

Edgar Cayce

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.

Truman Capote

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas. , "Answered Prayers" (Unspoiled Monsters).

William Shakespeare

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

Leos Carax

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.