Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander the Great

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

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.

Alexander Smith

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

We definitely deserved punishment. We didn't deserve what was essentially the death penalty.

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

William Shakespeare

Death rock me asleep.

It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.

John Phillips

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Thomas Wolfe

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Wesley Schultz

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Chuck Palahniuk

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Yann Martel

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Clark Gregg

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

James M. Barrie

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

Gloria Steinem

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Alison Jackson

When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.

Tony Benn

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Cedric Richmond

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

Glenn Hoddle

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

Stephane Hessel

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

Bill Hicks

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Rick Warren

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

Roger Rosenblatt

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

Orlando Bloom

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

Peter O'Toole

I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.

Olivia Newton-John

Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

Ray Winstone

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

Malala Yousafzai

I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

Margot Robbie

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

Sloan Wilson

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.