Death quotes

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.” Ernest Hemingway

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.” Jim Morrison

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.” Jim Morrison

“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.” Jim Morrison

“The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?” Rush Limbaugh

“I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.” Paul McCartney

“The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Paul McCartney

“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” Michelangelo

“If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.” Michelangelo

“I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.” Douglas MacArthur

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” Anais Nin

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” Anais Nin

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” Anais Nin

“People living deeply have no fear of death.” Anais Nin

“In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.” Henry Miller

“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.” Henry Miller

“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.” Horace Mann

“If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.” Marilyn Manson

“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Joel Osteen

“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” Joel Osteen

“Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.” Ron Paul

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.” Blaise Pascal

“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.” Blaise Pascal

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” Blaise Pascal

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?” Chuck Palahniuk

“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” Thomas Paine

“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” Thomas Paine

“He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.” Thomas Paine

“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.” Pope John Paul II