Quotes about Death

“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”

“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”

“Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“Fling but a stone, the giant dies.”

“When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.”

“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.”

“Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.”

“The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.”

“'A Death in the Gunj' is set in 1979 and we had to mute a joke that referred to Indira Gandhi. The censors also wouldn't allow the tortoise that some of the characters talk about to be called Kalidas because it's the name of a respected poet.”

“Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.”

“Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.”

“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”

“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”

“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.”

“Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.”

“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.”

“Give me liberty or give me death.”

“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.”

“You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.”