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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
— N. T. Wright
The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.
— Jimmy Chin
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. 
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
— Antonin Scalia
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
— Charles de Montesquieu
Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.
— Kirk Cameron
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
— Khalil Gibran
Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.
— Regina Brett
'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.
— Jonathan Kozol
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.
— Myles Munroe
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
— Indira Gandhi
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
— Horatio Nelson
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
— Damien Hirst
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
— Mary Schmich
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
— Sam Harris
Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia.
— Juliana Hatfield
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
— Gloria Steinem
The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.
— Mother Angelica
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
— George Carlin
With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.
— Julianne Moore
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.
— Patti Smith
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
— Jack Kevorkian
I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.
— Pau Gasol
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
— Antonin Scalia
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
— George Carlin
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
— Ashley Montagu
Man always dies before he is fully born.
— Erich Fromm
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
— Isaiah Berlin
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
— Alexandre Dumas
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
— Jim Morrison
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
— James Russell Lowell
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
— Thomas Browne
There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
— Jennifer Lopez
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
— Douglas Horton
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
— Walt Whitman
I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.
— Conor Oberst
When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'
— Mickey Rourke
Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
— Ram Dass
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
— J. G. Ballard
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
— Orlando Gibbons
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
— Saint Bernard
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
— Ludwig van Beethoven
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
— Leonardo da Vinci
It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
— Terry Pratchett
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
— Saint Ambrose
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
— Karen DeCrow
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
— Gore Vidal
Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.
— Michael Greger
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. 
— Jessamyn West
I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
— Morrissey
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
— Bobby Fischer
My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.
— Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Following Michael Brown's death, I went to Ferguson and met with his parents. I stood with them as they tried to hold their heads high and deal with both their immense loss and the larger issues of police-community relations.
— Al Sharpton
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
— Charles M. Blow
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
— Berenice Abbott
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
— Eugene Ionesco
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
— Jean de La Fontaine
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
— Susan Sontag
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
— Blaise Pascal
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
— Aldous Huxley
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
— Yasser Arafat
Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.
— Conway Twitty
Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.
— Stevie Nicks
I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me? 
— Guru Nanak
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
— Ernestine Rose
Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.
— Ronnie James Dio
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
— Daniel Boone
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
— Angela Davis
I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.
— John Andre
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
— Heinrich Heine
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
— Bianca Jagger
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
— Henry David Thoreau
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
— H. G. Wells
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
— John Keats
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
— Aeschylus
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
— Kevin Smith
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
— Tom Robbins
Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.
— Michael Haneke
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
— Harry Browne
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
— Yusuf Hamied
If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
— Rafael Cruz
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.
— David Lynch
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.
— Joan Jett
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
— Fritz Lang
The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.
— Richard Dawkins
I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.
— Martha Beck
For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.
— Philippe Petit
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points.
— Richard Flanagan
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
— Zig Ziglar
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
— Katherine Dunn
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
— Hilaire Belloc
Everything that gets born dies.
— Morrie Schwartz
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
— Jean Cocteau
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.
— Albert Camus
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
— Ernest Hemingway
If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.
— Cesare Beccaria
I'm not afraid to die.
— John Wooden
Death is the cure for all diseases.
— Thomas Browne
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
— Stephen Leacock
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
— T. S. Eliot
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— W. H. Auden
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
— E. W. Howe
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
— B. R. Hayden
Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns. 
— Bryant H. McGill
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
— Annie Lennox
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
— Lucan
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. 
— Ovid
Biography lends to death a new terror.
— Oscar Wilde
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
— Dennis Quaid
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
— Woody Allen
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
— Kevin Spacey
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
— Havelock Ellis
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
— Ernest Renan
Birth was the death of him.
— Samuel Beckett
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
— Thomas Browne
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
— Jean Giraudoux
A useless life is an early death.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The valiant never taste of death but once.
— William Shakespeare
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
— Charles de Montesquieu
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
— Graham Greene
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
— David Blaine
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
— Jonathan Davis
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
— George Fox
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
— Burke Marshall
Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
— Kim Elizabeth
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
— D. H. Lawrence
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.
— William Kidd
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
— Ray Kurzweil
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
— Tammy Bruce
The coward sneaks to death the brave live on. 
— George Sewell
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
— Ryan Gosling
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
— Jose Marti
Many cats are the death of the mouse.
— Kaspar Hauser
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
— Mary Harris Jones
Death is a very important part of life.
— GG Allin
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
— Seth Lloyd
There is nothing glamorous about death.
— Roger Moore
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
— Basil Hume
Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
— Kit Williams
All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.
— Katie Price
I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
— Ryan White
The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.
— Erskine Bowles
Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
— Buddy Holly
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
— Stanislav Grof
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
— Thomas Kyd
The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.
— Rose Schneiderman
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
— James Cameron
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
— Ani DiFranco
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
— Vance Havner
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
— Lena Horne
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
— Ron White
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. 
— Thomas Francis Meagher
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
— Eric Hoffer
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
— Pierre Corneille
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Not even old age knows how to love death.
— Sophocles
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
— Pierre Corneille
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
— Theodore Parker
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
— Bertrand Russell
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
— Samuel Butler
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
— Isabel Allende
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
— John Stossel
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
— John Grisham
My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.
— Cheryl Strayed
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
— Cate Blanchett
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
— Stephen Jay Gould
And I love Evander Holyfield to death!
— Ray Lewis
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
— Tea Obreht
There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.
— Peter Mullan
I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.
— Carl Paladino
The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!
— Ted Dekker
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
— Will Self
You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.
— Will Self
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.
— Steven Pinker
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
— Aubrey de Grey
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
— Dan Aykroyd
My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.
— Maria Shriver
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
— David Suchet
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
— Michio Kaku
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
— Alan Dershowitz
I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
— Marianne Faithfull
At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
— Charlie Pierce
I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.
— Serj Tankian
When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all.
— Michael Eric Dyson
Even a cup of coffee tastes so much sweeter because you've come once again out of the, literally, out of the edge of death, and that's the condition I suppose that a lot of artists and writers would like to be in.
— Christopher Koch
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.
— Ezra Taft Benson
My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
— Dani Shapiro
Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank.
— Jonathan Raymond
I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.
— Dasha Zhukova
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
— Andrew Hudgins
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
— Stephen Hawking
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.
— Peter O'Toole
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.
— Elaine Pagels
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
— Harmony Korine
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.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.
— Angelina Jolie
With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.
— Joan Rivers
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
— Nancy Gibbs
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
— Nancy Gibbs
Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented.
— Birdman
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
— David Blunkett
I'm a huge animal lover - I love animals to death. I've got tortoises and three dogs, and I've had a million animals in the past. I just think that we should do all we can to take care of them.
— Roshon Fegan
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.
— John Ortberg
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.
— Cate Blanchett
I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.
— Roz Chast
I love my wife to death. I mean my ex-wife.
— Stewart Rahr
No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.
— ASAP Ferg
Good taste is death vulgarity is life. 
— Mary Quant
If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.
— Phil Klay
I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
— Caitlin Doughty
For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
— Caitlin Doughty
Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
— Faith Hunter
I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
— Aage Bohr
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.
— Edward Hirsch
In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.
— Michael Ashcroft
'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.
— Ann Turner
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
— Leo Buscaglia
Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
— Charles Lindbergh
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
— Patrick deWitt
The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.
— Michael Greger
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
— Plato
An unused life is an early death.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
— Khalil Gibran
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
— Samuel Johnson
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
— Clint Eastwood
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty we sanction it. 
— Michael Moore
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
— Chuck Palahniuk
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
— Angelina Jolie
In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
— Bernie Sanders
'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
— Mason Cooley
I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
— Paulo Coelho
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
— Eckhart Tolle
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
I hate death it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. 
— John Lydon
This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
— Jesse Ventura
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
— Terry Pratchett
I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
— Viggo Mortensen
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
— Timothy Noah
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
— George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
— George Eliot
In every parting there is an image of death.
— George Eliot
Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.
— Ben Shapiro
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
— Martha Beck
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.
— Junot Diaz
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
— Brad Pitt
'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'
— Kenneth Branagh
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
— Michel de Montaigne
The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
— Ellen G. White
God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.
— Ellen G. White
People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.
— David Duchovny
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
— Elbert Hubbard
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
— Aeschylus
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
— Epictetus
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
— Woody Allen
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
— Emile M. Cioran
The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
— Natalie Cole
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
— Rufus Wainwright
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.
— Jessica Simpson
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.
— Richard Flanagan
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
— Daryl Hall
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.
— Sloane Crosley
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
— Daniel Barenboim
In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
— Dan Jenkins
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
— Karl Pilkington
She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.
— Helena Bonham Carter
There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.
— Evan Osnos
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
— Florence Welch
To have died once is enough.
— Virgil
In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
— Ben Horowitz
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
— Juliette Binoche
One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.
— Kathryn Minshew
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
— Joel Salatin