Death Quotes - page 65

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. (Montgomery Clift)
Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day. View quote
Nick Mancuso
I can't have white roses. They symbolize death. View quote
Nina Arianda
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it. View quote
Oliver Reed
Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment. View quote
Oren Peli
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. View quote
Orlando Gibbons
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return. View quote
Otto Frank
There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out. View quote
Peter Mullan
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death. View quote
Phil Bredesen
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that. View quote
Philip Kaufman
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. (Pierre Salinger)
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. View quote
Polly Toynbee
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death. View quote
Polly Toynbee
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. View quote
Polly Toynbee
I've had death threats, if you can imagine. View quote
Pat Boone
Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. View quote
Patricia Heaton
I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window. View quote
Pau Gasol
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death. View quote
Paul Lynde
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. View quote
Robert M. Hutchins
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially. View quote
Ralph G. Neas
Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death. (Robert Vaughan)
Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm. View quote
Robert Winston
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence. View quote
Robin Trower
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it. View quote
Roger Angell
The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants. View quote
Roger Mahony