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Death Quotes

"Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death."

"Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death."

Margot Kidder, American Actress

6

"The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses."

"The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses."

Mac Thornberry, American Politician

Death, Family, Opportunity, Children

6

"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives."

"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives."

Algernon Charles Swinburne, English Poet

Death, Marriage, Time, Old

6

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Death, Revenge, Nature, Darkness

6

"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records."

"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records."

Edie Brickell, American Musician

Death, Energy, Play, Songs

6

"Blood and death. That moves me."

"Blood and death. That moves me."

Ikue Mori, Japanese Musician

6

"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation."

"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation."

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian

Death, Life, God, Being

6

"Swearing, d'Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary " except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d'Angelo couldn't see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn't a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter."

"Swearing, d'Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary " except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d'Angelo couldn't see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn't a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Death, Mystery, Loss, Space

6

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death."

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death."

Lyman Beecher, American Clergyman

Death, Lie, Will

6

"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire."

"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire."

Edward Young, English Poet

Death, Fire, Nothing, Waste

6

"Death and the dice level all distinctions."

"Death and the dice level all distinctions."

Samuel Foote, English Dramatist

6

"It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death."

"It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death."

Elijah Cummings, American Politician

Death, Civilrights, Journey

5

"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."

"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."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

5

"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."

"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."

Jack Kevorkian, American Activist

5

"More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty."

"More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty."

Jerry Weller, American Politician

5

"Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful."

"Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

Death, Life, Mystery

5

"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

5

"It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do."

"It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

Death, Church, Earth, Light

5

"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death."

"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death."

Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist

Death, Life, Eternity, Man

5

"What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death."

"What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death."

Zane Grey, American Author

Death, Life, Blood, Forgetfulness

5

"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."

"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."

Damien Hirst, British Artist

Death, Life, Decisions

5

"Death is the most blessed dream."

"Death is the most blessed dream."

Georg Buchner, German Dramatist

5

"Death does determine life."

"Death does determine life."

Pier P. Pasolini, Italian Filmmaker

5

"My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy."

"My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy."

Judy Collins, American Musician

Death, Life, Love, Son

5

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

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

Mel Brooks, American Comedian

5

"It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death."

"It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death."

Christopher Shays, American Politician

Death, People, Knowledge, Information

5

"It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires."

"It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires."

Ed Markey, American Politician

Death, Knowledge, Cause, Causes

5

"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death."

"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death."

Ernestine L. Rose, Polish Feminist

Death, Life, Agitation

5

"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety."

"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety."

Joe Moore, American Celebrity

Death, Love, Money, Anxiety

5

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

5

"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"

"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

5

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."

Ani DiFranco, American Musician

5

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

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

Paul Simon, American Musician

Death, People, Punishment

5

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Death, Fear, Compromise, Duty

5

"There is no more final end than death."

"There is no more final end than death."

John Thaw, British Actor

5

"One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff."

"One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff."

George Eads, American Actor

5

"She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it."

"She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it."

Margaret Sanger, American Activist

Death, Time, Man, Right

5

"Death is just life's next big adventure."

"Death is just life's next big adventure."

J. K. Rowling, English Author

Death, Life, Adventure

5

"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."

"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Death, Soul, Communism, Conformity

5

"NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice."

"NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Death, Kiss, Advertising, Choice

5

"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."

"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."

David Byrne, Scottish Musician

Death, Disease, Glamour, Horror

5

"Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is."

"Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is."

Mitt Romney, American Politician

Death, Government, Time, Opportunity

5

"Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side."

"Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side."

John Fahey, American Musician

Death, Thought, Blind, First

5

"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you."

"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you."

Georg Hermes, German Theologian

5

"McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done."

"McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done."

Jon Stewart, American Entertainer

5

"I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia."

"I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia."

Cher, American Musician

Death, Pet, Being, Paranoia

5

"Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death."

"Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death."

Rupert Holmes, English Composer

Death, Life, Success, Failure

5

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."

Epicurus, Greek Philosopher

5

"The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation."

"The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation."

Jennifer Dunn, American Politician

Death, Family, Tax, Income

5

"I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative."

"I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative."

Margot Kidder, American Actress

Death, Thought, Character

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