Death Quotes

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Eliot Spitzer

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

Lewis Thomas

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Erik H. Erikson

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

Ingrid Newkirk

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Simon Travaglia

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

John Milton

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

Maya Angelou

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Christopher Marlowe

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

Katie Price

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!

Gillian Anderson

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Jack Lemon

In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn

Alain de Botton, The Inevitable

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Socrates

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Mel Brooks

We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

Book Of Common Prayer

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

Well, then I'll die.' Sooner than other people, obviously. But everybody knows that life isn't worth living. And when it came down to it, I wasn't unaware of the fact that it doesn't matter very much whether you die at thirty or at seventy since, in either case, other men and women will naturally go on living, for thousands of years even. Nothing was plainer, in fact. It was still only me who was dying, whether it was now or in twenty years' time.

Albert Camus