Death quotes

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.