1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
Elton John

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

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

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
Lewis Thomas

So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.
Theresa May

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
Maya Lin

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
Mike Myers

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
Mercedes McCambridge

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.
Mercedes McCambridge

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
Christy Turlington

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Christy Turlington

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
Aung San Suu Kyi

I am against the death penalty.
Andrew Cuomo

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
Andrew Cuomo

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
Andrew Cuomo

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
Orlando Bloom

To awake from death is to die in peace.
Douglas Horton

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
Douglas Horton

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Friedrich Durrenmatt