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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
— Steve Earle
As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.
— Kevin DeYoung
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
— Joel Salatin
It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.
— Antonin Scalia
The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.
— Jane Goodall
Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!
— Miriam Defensor-Santiago
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
— Robert De Niro
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
— Susan Ertz
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
— Nancy Reagan
When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.
— Leos Carax
When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.
— Mickalene Thomas
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape. 
— Voltaire
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
— Michelangelo
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
— Lyman Beecher
I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
— Damien Hirst
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
— Bill Gates
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
— Morrissey
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
— W. C. Fields
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.
— John Perez
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.
— Stella Young
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
— Tim Kaine
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
— Robert Benchley
I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
— Angus Young
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
— Virgil
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
— Thomas Hobbes
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
— Rollo May
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
— Julius Caesar
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
— Paul Simon
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.
— Antonin Scalia
I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.
— Asa Hutchinson
Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.
— Jeff Buckley
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
— Elie Wiesel
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
— Sitting Bull
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
— Elizabeth Fishel
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
— David Mitchell
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
— Michael Sheen
Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
— Billy Graham
You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.
— Sean Taylor
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man. 
— Miguel de Unamuno
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
— Stewart Alsop
Death is a fearful thing.
— William Shakespeare
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
— Jeff Goodell
Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.
— Annie Besant
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
— Joseph Stalin
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
— Terry Pratchett
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
— Edvard Munch
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
— Barry Goldwater
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
— Bob Dylan
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
— William Shakespeare
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
— Eugene Ionesco
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
— Ida B. Wells
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
— Alfred Nobel
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
— John Wesley
I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'
— Blake Lively
The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.
— Robert Kennedy
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
— Ambrose Bierce
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
— Deepak Chopra
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable therefore death is not evil. 
— Citium Zeno
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
— Peter Tosh
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
— Jack Black
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
— Deepak Chopra
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.
— Vincent Nichols
Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?
— Peter Abelard
One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.
— Enzo Ferrari
You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.
— Brian Blessed
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
— Ram Dass
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
— Katharine Lee Bates
Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.
— Bruce Lipton
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
— Victor Hugo
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
— Mark Twain
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
— Winston Churchill
I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
— Bob Marley
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
— Charlotte Bronte
For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.
— Tite Kubo
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.
— Elizabeth Warren
What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart.
— Charles Spurgeon
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
— George Bernard Shaw
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
— Sun Tzu
As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
— Ed Sheeran
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes.
— Milos Zeman
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
— Voltaire
One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic. 
— Joseph Stalin
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
— Hilaire Belloc
At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
— Klaus Fuchs
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
— Stephen Hawking
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
— John Keats
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
— Robert Browning
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
— Sting
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
— Imran Khan
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. 
— Albert Pike
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
— Warren Zevon
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
— William Penn
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
— Ben Kingsley
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
— Kim Elizabeth
Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.
— Alysia Reiner
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
— Jean Cocteau
Death is just life's next big adventure.
— J. K. Rowling
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
— Heinrich Heine
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
— Susan Hayward
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
— Billy Graham
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
— Barry Jenkins
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
— Mel Brooks
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. 
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
— Morihei Ueshiba
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
— George Ryan
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
— Dwight L. Moody
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
— Florence Nightingale
Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.
— Jerry Seinfeld
As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
— Sam Harris
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
— Stendhal
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
— Frank Dobson
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
— Carol P. Christ
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
— Stanislav Grof
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
— Danny Glover
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
— John Piper
I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.
— Toni Servillo
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
— James Shirley
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
— Aeschylus
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
— Albert Einstein
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
— Clarence Darrow
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
— Elie Wiesel
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
— Francis Bacon
I'm gonna live till I die.
— Frank Sinatra
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
— Douglas MacArthur
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
— Herodotus
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
— Horace
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
— Virginia Woolf
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
— Robert Bolt
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
— Charles de Montesquieu
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
— Roger Waters
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
— John Milton
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
— D. H. Lawrence
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
— Jacqueline Cochran
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
— O. J. Simpson
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
— Leo Tolstoy
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
— George Whitefield
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
— Anne Boleyn
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
— Jerry Garcia
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
— Edvard Munch
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life. 
— Jeanne Calment
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
— Chanakya
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
— Andre Breton
If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
— Max Lucado
Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.
— James Hetfield
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
— David Lynch
He that fears death loses the joys of life.
— Jan Hus
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
— Mads Mikkelsen
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
— Saul Alinsky
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
— Rosalind Russell
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
— John Steinbeck
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
— Edna Ferber
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
— Carl Jung
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! 
— William Shakespeare
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
— Saul Alinsky
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
— Robert Benchley
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
— Angelina Jolie
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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.
— Brendan Behan
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
— John Donne
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
— Oscar Wilde
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
— Tennessee Williams
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
— Marcus Aurelius
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
— Tryon Edwards
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
— Fran Lebowitz
The first requisite for immortality is death.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
— Johnny Carson
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
— Luigi Pirandello
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
— Angela Davis
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
— Christopher Fry
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
— Ian Fleming
Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. 
— Don Miguel Ruiz
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
— Mary Shelley
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
— Tecumseh
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
— Davy Crockett
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
— John Andre
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
— Louis Farrakhan
We will persevere, come life or death.
— Lewis Tappan
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
— Bodhidharma
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
— Tom Araya
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
— Bao Dai
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
— Dorothy Day
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
— Leonard Nimoy
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
— Lynn Redgrave
Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.
— Todd Tiahrt
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
— Yitzhak Rabin
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
— Ernest Hemingway
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
— Oscar Wilde
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
— Alfred Adler
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
— Plato
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
— Angela Carter
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
— William Shakespeare
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
— Ernest Hemingway
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
— Hermann Hesse
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
— David Hume
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
— Seneca
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
— Soren Kierkegaard
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. 
— Elizabeth I
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
— Rush Limbaugh
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
— Orlando Bloom
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
— Alain Robert
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
— Dan Savage
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
— Carl Hiaasen
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
— Paul McCartney
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
— Alastair Campbell
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
— Billy Corgan
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.
— Mario Monicelli
When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
— Albert Brooks
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.
— Sebastian Junger
Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.
— Cesar Millan
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
— John Ortberg
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
— Michel Houellebecq
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.
— Raymond Carver
When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
— Sheldon Whitehouse
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
— Peter Abelard
The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
— Chiang Kai-shek
I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.
— Mattie Stepanek
The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
— Jeremy Grantham
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.
— Steve Earle
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
— Marco Tempest
There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
— Bill Hicks
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
— Elon Musk
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
— Celia Imrie
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
— Jose Saramago
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.
— Huston Smith
WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.
— Anita Shreve
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
— Dalai Lama
When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.
— Yuvraj Singh
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
— Stanley Hauerwas
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.
— David Novak
I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.
— Fairuza Balk
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.
— Barack Obama
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
— Adam Hamilton
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
— Jamie Wyeth
I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.
— Platon
Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.
— Golshifteh Farahani
For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.
— Jodie Evans
I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
— Billy Collins
Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
— Alison Owen
I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.
— Bel Powley
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
— Edvard Munch
It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.
— Bernhard Langer
Inactivity is death.
— Benito Mussolini
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
— Daniel Boone
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
— Edvard Munch
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'
— Steven Wright
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.
— Tori Amos
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
— Anna Akhmatova
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
— Vladimir Lenin
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
— Paul Lynde
Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
— Billy Graham
Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.
— Mike Huckabee
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
— John Ortberg
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
— Muqtada al Sadr
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
— Andy Rooney
Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.
— Leonard Susskind
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
— Tupac Shakur
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
— Montgomery Clift
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
— James Anthony Froude
The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.
— Angelo Scola
The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
— John Burroughs
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
— Emily Dickinson
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
— Jesse Jackson
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
— Albert Camus
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
— Carl Sagan
Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.
— Dianne Feinstein
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
— Noam Chomsky
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
— Alvar N. C. de Vaca
I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
— Steven Seagal