No Death Quotes

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

When you stop fighting, that's death.

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]

Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Life is a near-death experience.

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Death is the greatest illusion of all.