Quotes about Death

“The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.”

“To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don't follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me.”

“Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.”

“People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!”

“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.”

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.”

“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.”

“My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.”

“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.”

“Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.”

“The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.”

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”

“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?”

“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”

“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”

“Hell, madam, is to love no longer.”

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

“I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“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.”

“We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.”

“Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.”