Famous Quotes & Sayings

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

Brendan Behan

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Gordon Smith

When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.

Suge Knight

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

Walter Kirn

People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.

Warren G

Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.

Alexei Sayle

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

Tom Bosley

So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we had to do on stage, stronger. We got very much involved in what we were doing.

Alexander the Great

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Alexander Smith

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

Alexander Smith

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Alexander Lowen

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

We want to be sure that the death was related to West Nile. Just because you die and you have West Nile, that doesn't mean you died of it.

Adam Clarke

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

Adam Clarke

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Ani Difranco

You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.

Anthony Jeselnik

I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

Ann Druyan

The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

Ann Landers

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Kirk Hammett

For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever.

Kirk Cameron

What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them.

Kate Atkinson

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

Karin Slaughter

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

James Salter

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

Mircea Eliade

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Ritchie Blackmore

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.