I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. Jesse Ventura on death
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. Stevie Ray Vaughan on death
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. Damien Hirst on death
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't. Damien Hirst on death
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact. Damien Hirst on death
I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. Damien Hirst on death
I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death. Joaquin Phoenix on death
It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser. Bernhard Langer on death
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit. Elia Kazan on death
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. Georg Hermes on death
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? Debra Winger on death
I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life. John Hodgman on death
When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly. John Hodgman on death
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence. Florence Welch on death
A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death! Sonia Johnson on death
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. Margaret Sanger on death
Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. Tahar Ben Jelloun on death
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. Carol P. Christ on death
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. Ivan Turgenev on death
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. Bjork on death