To The Death Quotes

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever.

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.

What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.

If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.

Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition, I can do little else in my present position.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Competition is the death of art.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart.