1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
Marilyn Manson

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
Bodhidharma

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
David Herbert Lawrence

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo DaVinci

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
Mason Cooley

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
Peter Tosh

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai E. Stevenson

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Sophocles

Not even old age knows how to love death.
Sophocles

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
Quentin Tarantino

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
Jesse Jackson

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Vladimir Lenin

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David Byrne

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
Brooke Shields