Death Quotes - Page 5

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.

I'm gonna live till I die.

I looked Death right in the face.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

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

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

States without the death penalty have had consistently lower murder rates. And national murder rates have declined steadily since 1992, despite fewer executions.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

I actually see comedy in death.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.