To The Death Quotes

I would rather burn out than rust out.

I've always been fascinated by dark subjects, especially people's reactions to them. Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death if everyone dies?

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.

It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude.

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that we sing out loud the message, 'Love forever.'

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death

That's not normal, because we don't want to be normal. Normal is what weak people call it living. I call it death.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

Dead men tell no tales.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.