I need DEATH QUOTES...?! please.. (A)?

Answer 1

Death row is a state of mind.
-Doris Ann Foster

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn;
it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death
by a frown on the right person's brow.
- Charles Brower

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
-Jewish Proverb

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
- Bishop Hall

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime
in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.
-Rudolph W. Giuliani (R), former U.S. Attorney of New York,
former mayor of New York City

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life.
It is not a fact in the world.
- Wittgenstein

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Answer 2

A lot of people, on the verge of death, utter famous last words or stiffen into attitudes...they still want to arouse admiration and adopt a pose and tell a lie with their last gasp.

Henri de Montherlant (1896 - 1972)


All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)


Let the foul scene proceed:
There's laughter in the wings;
'Tis sawdust that they bleed,
Only a box Death brings.

Walter de la Mare (1873 - 1956)

Answer 3

Here are some good death quotes:

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948)

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932

For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD), Chapter 2

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan (1941 - )

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Her last words, as quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A
Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns (1896 - 1996)

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06-11-04

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations

Answer 4

All but Death, can be Adjusted—
Dynasties repaired—
Systems—settled in their Sockets—
Citadels—dissolved—

Wastes of Lives—resown with Colors
By Succeeding Springs—
Death—unto itself—Exception—
Is exempt from Change—

Answer 5

If you mean the last words spoken before someone died, here's a few:

"Let us cross over the river and rest beneath the shade of the trees." Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, 1863.

"This is a hell of a way for a soldier to die!" General George S. Patton, Jr, 1946.

"Strike the tent!" Confederate General Robert E. Lee, 1868.

"Oh, yes; it is the glorious Fourth of July. It is a great day. It is a good day. God bless it. God bless you all." John Adam, July 4, 1826.

"This is the last of Earth! I am content..." John Quincy Adams, Feb 21, 1848.

"Now I can cross the Shifting Sands." L. Frank Baum, author of "The Wizard of Oz."

"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis." Humphrey Bogart.

"I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me." Dwight D. Eisenhower.

"I have a terrific headache." President Franklin D. Roosevelt, spoken to his wife as he went to bed at night. He died in his sleep in 1944.

Answer 6

1) Life is pleasant , death is peaceful.Its the transition that's troublesome-Matthew Arnold.
2) Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come-Rabindranath Tagore.
3) The fear of death follows from the fear of life.A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time-Mark Twain.
4) When you have solved all mysteries of life,you long for death for it is another mystery of life-Kahlil Gibran.

Answer 7

I don't mind Dying, its having to stay dead that scares the sh*t out of me.

It's not that life is too short, its that death lasts so long.

A low yield atomic bomb is kinda like being a little pregnant.

In atomic war all men will be cremated equal.

Kill one you, are a murderer. Kill millions, you are a conquerer. Kill everyone and you are a god.

Answer 8

Death and sex are life's greatest moments. But at least after death, you're not nauseous. - Woody Allen

Answer 9

My favorite from American writer Fran Lebowitz: "Sleep is death without the responsibility."

Answer 10

Voltaire (when asked to renounce satan on his death bed) "Now, now dear sir, this is not hte time to be making enemies."