Death Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• Tiger Woods
• Socrates
• Vincent van Gogh
• Angela Merkel
• E. E. Cummings
• Agatha Christie
• Benazir Bhutto
• Nelson Mandela
• George Carlin
• Benjamin Franklin

• Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

  Peter DeFazio

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Men And Women

• Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment – in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

  Danny Glover

  Topics in Death

• But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

  Steve King

  Topics in Death

  Tags in People

• In Mexico you have death very close. That’s true for all human beings because it’s a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Human Beings

• I have had death threats from people with fixations.

  Enya

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Threats

• Bin Laden’s death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they’ve had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that’s a good thing.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Time, Think

• In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

  Paul Gillmor

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Process

• Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Death

• I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

  William Kidd

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Friends, Care

• It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It’s not their fault, but I couldn’t do that any longer.

  Brian Welch

  Topics in Death, Love

  Tags in Heart

• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  Walter Benjamin

  Topics in Death

• I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it’s a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

  Beth Gibbons

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Thought

• You don’t rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

  Stan Getz

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Jazz

• People don’t want to talk about death, just like they don’t want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

  Dan Farmer

  Topics in Death

• When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Topics in Death

  Tags in World

• Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

  Roger Waters

  Topics in Death

• Terri’s death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.

  Bob Beauprez

  Topics in Death

• I won’t forget the hood. I won’t forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

  Pau Gasol

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Forget, Way

• Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Topics in Death

• I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Indigestion