Death quotes

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

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

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.