Quotes about Death

“Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.”

“Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.”

“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”

“I love my mother to death. I'm pretty much a reflection of her.”

“Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.”

“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”

“The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.”

“Death is better than slavery.”

“Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.”

“People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.”

“No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.”

“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”

“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.”

“You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.”

“You have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it's not life or death. Once the game is over, you're already talking about next year and the draft. It's just entertainment.”

“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

“What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.”

“If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.”

“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.”

“It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.”

“Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.”