Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Springsteen

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

Bruce Springsteen

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

Bruce Springsteen

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Boyd Rice

Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your head on the end of a stick is a strong incentive toward 'visualizing world peace'.

Jane Hirshfield

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

James Whitcomb Riley

I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn For an old-time step, and the glad return, Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here. Think of him still as the same. I say, He is not dead - he is just away.

Juvenal

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Juvenal

Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

Juvenal

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

Knute Nelson

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

Kerry King

When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

Josh Holloway

We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.

John Conyers

We have yet to investigate the Administration's failed policy in Iraq that has led to the deaths of over 2,000 American soldiers.

Yes, it was positive, she died from avian influenza. We have 22 deaths now.

Charles Bukowski

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

We have received confirmation. (The death toll) is now nine.

John Grisham

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.

Muqtada al Sadr

When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.

Meryl Streep

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.

Benjamin Franklin

Death takes no bribes.

Benjamin Franklin

Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.

Benjamin Franklin

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

Benjamin Franklin

Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

Benjamin Franklin

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.

Arthur Golden

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Arthur Brisbane

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Arthur C. Clarke

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

Anton Chekhov

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

Anton Chekhov

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.