Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yann Martel

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Clark Gregg

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Christina Baker Kline

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Billy Corgan

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Matthew Pearl

When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.

Benjamin Franklin

When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell,/ If we were Wax, or Tallow by the Smell./ At a great Pennyworth, pause a while.

William Gurnall

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Nicole Mones

You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there.

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Bob Hill

We got off to such a great start and I was scared to death of that. Because when you score that easy, you're not going to score that easy the whole game.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

Lynda Barry

When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'

Laura Linney

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Vik Muniz

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

William Shakespeare

The valiant never taste of death but once.

George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Barbara Ehrenreich

My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

Brendan Gleeson

The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.

Bobby Scott

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

Plato

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion

Nat King Cole

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

Buddy Hackett

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

G. Gordon Liddy

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Samuel Butler

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.