Death quotes

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

We see death constantly on film.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

I looked Death right in the face.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.