Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Samuel Butler

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Samuel Butler

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Edmund Spenser

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

Fritz Lang

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Maurice Sendak

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

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.

Birdman

Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented.

Debra Messing

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.

Jeaniene Frost

If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Barry Trotz

You make one mistake, and they have you on death row.

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.