Quotes about Death

“I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.”

“He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”

“I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.”

“Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.”

“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.”

“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.”

“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”

“I came from a hard, working-class world which, since my mother's death, had been dominated by men. I hadn't been encouraged to talk about the burden of grief, and because I was severely underdeveloped when it came to sharing my emotions, I mustn't have been the most communicative husband.”

“To have died once is enough.”

“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.”

“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.”

“When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.”

“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.”

“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.”

“I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world.”

“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.”

“Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it.”

“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.”