Death Quotes - page 18

I wait for death... and journalists. (Jeanne Calment)
You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor. View quote
David Carradine
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all. View quote
David Carradine
I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation. View quote
Margaret Mahy
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. View quote
James Stephens
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. View quote
Hu Shih
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. View quote
Alex Campbell
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. View quote
Al Goldstein
It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser. (Bernhard Langer)
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. View quote
Carol P. Christ
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. View quote
Carter Burwell
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. View quote
David Hyde Pierce
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. View quote
Donald Cargill
And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment. View quote
Donald Evans
It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable. View quote
Eydie Gorme
But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way. View quote
Herbie Mann
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. View quote
Harold Brodkey
Death is better than slavery. (Harriet Ann Jacobs)
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. View quote
Harry Mathews
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. View quote
James F. Byrnes
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. View quote
Keith Henson
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death. View quote
Leo Durocher