Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

Ed Koch

I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishment in horrific cases, and two, it's a deterrent. There are studies that say that for every person executed, eight innocent people who might otherwise have been murdered were not.

Jerry B. Jenkins

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

overcome the difficulties they faced after the death of Gassingbe Eyadema.

Sue Miller

Our whole home, our lives, got turned inside out. We just felt fortunate ours was still here, fortunate there were no deaths or anything like that.

Nat King Cole

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Maurice Sendak

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Matthew Pearl

When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.

Benjamin Franklin

When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell,/ If we were Wax, or Tallow by the Smell./ At a great Pennyworth, pause a while.

William Gurnall

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Nicole Mones

You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there.

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Bob Hill

We got off to such a great start and I was scared to death of that. Because when you score that easy, you're not going to score that easy the whole game.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

Lynda Barry

When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'

Laura Linney

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Vik Muniz

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

William Shakespeare

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Barbara Ehrenreich

My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

Brendan Behan

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Suge Knight

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

Alexander Smith

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part

Chuck Palahniuk

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

James M. Barrie

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.