Quotes about death
death fall ignorance
I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it. Jack Kerouac
death suicide littles
Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition I can do little else in my present position. Jack Horkheimer
death humor dies
Gags die, humor doesn't. Jack Benny
death short-life long
A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God. Jack Black
death repentance graves
There's no repentance in the grave. Isaac Watts
death dust dying
No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.
death faith god pleased translated
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
death happened
His death which happened in his berth, / At forty-odd befell: / They went and told the sexton, and / The sexton toll'd the bell. Thomas Hood
death doctors entertainment expected good hollywood industry knew matter people personally privilege
His death said to the world that no matter how much privilege you have or how good your doctors are, there is no cure. At that time, many people in the entertainment industry knew people who expected to die, so Hollywood was very personally touched. Craig Thompson
death free freedom king lived luther martin men preached seek
His headstone said "Free at last, Free at last" - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence Nikki Giovanni
death-penalty human-rights penalties
The death penalty experiment has failed. Harry A. Blackmun
death freedom two
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. Harriet Tubman
death human-life humans
How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death. Hannah More
death food sugar
Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine. Guy Ritchie
death adventure rope
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition. Gerry Spence
death hurt should
We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own. Gerald Brenan
death war age
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.
deaths educate effort number reduce roads south
In an effort to reduce the number of deaths on our roads we want to educate the South Africans through our children.
death feeling great higher life might mission sure
I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life. Marianne Faithfull
death defend listen
I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd listen to it!
death love morning woke
I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing. Anthony Mann
deaths hand normal regret thrown
I regret the deaths but these were not normal demonstrations. You don't see hand grenades thrown at normal demonstrations, Meles Zenawi
death love mean
I love my wife to death. I mean my ex-wife.
death history penalty seeking shy ways
In this district, we have a history of seeking the death penalty in appropriate cases, ... It's not something we shy away from, but we're still a ways away from that decision.
death difference hope life
I hope I never have to use it. But if I do, it may make the difference between life and death for me and my family. Ted Kulongoski
death details knowing last minutes speaking
I have to be his voice. Knowing the whys, the details of his last minutes won't make his death any easier, but I will have an answer. I keep on because I have to keep speaking for him.
death design happens rather
I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design. Colleen Atwood
death music position respond
He started this music and we're not in a position to respond to it at all. He's the one who made the death notice. It's something he should respond to.
death sins-not dying
Dying is not a sin. Not living is. Jack Lemmon
death memorial pet
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
death lying simple
The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life? Jack Kornfield
death hope flower
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? J. D. Salinger
death children car
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. J. G. Ballard