Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
‐‐ Philippe Petit
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
‐‐ Jean Paul
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
‐‐ Dennis Rodman
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
‐‐ Victor Hugo
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
‐‐ Philip Massinger
Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
‐‐ Caitlin Doughty
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
‐‐ John Dryden
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
‐‐ John Cusack
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
‐‐ Alan Ball
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
‐‐ Herodotus
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
‐‐ Paul de Man
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
‐‐ Andy Rooney
Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz
Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.
‐‐ Kent Haruf
Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.
‐‐ Michel Onfray
Death is a monster; death is horrible.
‐‐ N. T. Wright
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.
‐‐ Nora Ephron
Death is a very important part of life.
‐‐ GG Allin
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
‐‐ Carter Burwell
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau
Death is an art, you know.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
‐‐ Eugene Ormandy
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
‐‐ Paul Theroux
Death is better than slavery.
‐‐ Harriet Ann Jacobs
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
‐‐ George Carlin
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
‐‐ Aeschylus
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
‐‐ Alex Graves
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
‐‐ Douglas Horton
Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
‐‐ Natascha McElhone
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
‐‐ Theodor W. Adorno
Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
‐‐ Simon Travaglia
Death is just life's next big adventure.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
‐‐ Georg Hermes
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
‐‐ Grace Slick
Death is never polite, even when we expect it.
‐‐ Tiny Tim
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
‐‐ Philip Larkin
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
‐‐ Helen Keller
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
‐‐ Oliver Joseph Lodge
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
‐‐ Giacomo Leopardi