Death quotes

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

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

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

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.