Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Bob Dylan

Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes

Bob Dylan

Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

Bob Dylan

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Bob Dylan

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

Boris Pasternak

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Boris Pasternak

It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began to live toward the future. Humans do not die in a ditch like a dog-but at home in history, while the work toward the conquest of death is in full swing; they die sharing in this work.

Brigham Young

What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.

Brendan Gill

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

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.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

I know that for me, whenever I'm in a situation where there's death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that.

Eric Holder

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

Enid Bagnold

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Captain Beefheart

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Carl Paladino

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

Blaise Pascal

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

Blaise Pascal

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.