Death quotes

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.