Death Quotes
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron
Baron Byron
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese philosopher
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Douglas Macarthur
American military leader
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart
American singer, songwriter,
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
H. R. Giger
Swiss artist
I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
Jesse Jackson
Former Shadow US Senator, DC
This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
Rachel Nichols
American actress
I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
Hozier
Irish musician
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.
Raymond Moody
American philosopher
What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.
Charlie Adam
Scottish former football player
Audley Harrison is quite a soft, gentle guy. He gives it all the talk but, when he's in the ring, you can see he's scared to death.
Carl Froch
British former professional boxer
I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.
Marianne Faithfull
Singer
But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.
Antonin Scalia
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.
Lobsang Tenzin
Former Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration
I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
Matt Drudge
American journalist
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
philosopher, writer
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.
Gerard De Nerval
French writer
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
British painter
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.
Matt Haig
Author
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
American critic
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