No Death Quotes

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.