Death quotes

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.