Quotes about Death

“He that fears death loses the joys of life.”

“The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.”

“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”

“The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.”

“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.”

“I'm working myself to death.”

“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.”

“I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.”

“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”

“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.”

“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”

“I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.”

“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.”

“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“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.”

“Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.”

“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.”

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.”

“Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.”