All Quotes

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