1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Polly Toynbee

When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.
Muqtada al Sadr

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Wangari Maathai

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.
Travis Barker

Death by starvation is slow.
Mary Austin

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
Harry Browne

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
Veronica Franco

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
Isabelle Adjani

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
Jeff Goodell

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
Daniel Boone

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Daniel Boone

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
Ethel Waters

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
Alex Winter

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
Jaron Lanier

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
Jack Kevorkian

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Jack Kevorkian

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
Jack Kevorkian

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
Jack Kevorkian

You've gotta know what death is to know life!
Jack Kevorkian