Famous Quotes & Sayings

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Josh Lucas

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

This indeed is a safe refuge, it is the refuge supreme. It is the refuge whereby one is freed from all suffering.

This guy was on his death bed, and we were more worried about having him live than having him race again.

They're the defending champions, and we were just thrilled to death to be in there with them. But they knew we were there, though, and I'm proud of this team for that.

Bill Shankly

They say Football's a matter of life and death - but it's more important than that

Michael Palmer

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.

Christopher Marlowe

You stars that reigned at my nativity, / Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, / Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist, / Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud.

Robin Gibb

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

This is an example of how we kill Puget Sound one project at a time it's a death of a thousand cuts.

This is a pretty high-priced policy. It depends how nervous you are about life. A wedding can get canceled -- as the death of J.F.K. (John F. Kennedy) Jr. proved -- but those things don't happen every day.

This is a pretty high-priced policy, ... It depends how nervous you are about life. A wedding can get canceled -- as the death of J.F.K. (John F. Kennedy) Jr. proved -- but those things don't happen every day.

John Sweeney

They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.

James Rosenquist

There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!

Gilbert Parker

There was no tragedy in his death -death is a magnificent ally; it untangles knots.

Fay Vincent

There were death threats on Bart and then on me,

Venus Williams

It was deathly windy! It was just swirling at random.

Germaine Greer

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Gerard Way

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Hal Holbrook

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

Greta Garbo

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

Horace

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Herman Melville

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Herman Melville

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Herman Melville

For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

Herman Melville

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

Herman Melville

O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.

Henry David Thoreau

Even trees do not die without a groan.

Henry David Thoreau

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How gently lay themselves down and turn to mould. They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when people, with our boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and ripe-with such an Indian-summer serenity will shed our bodies.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

Jeremy Collier

The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.

Eugene Ionesco

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.