Death - Quotes & Sayings

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Thomas Browne

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Anna Akhmatova

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Samuel Foote

If we go into space, we need enhancements that handle radiation and osteoporosis... or else we're dead. So what seems like an enhancement in one generation becomes life and death in another generation.

George M. Church

Death's in the good-bye.

Anne Sexton

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Juliette Binoche

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Adam Clarke

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

David Sarnoff

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Francis Thompson

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Bryan Procter

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Daniel Barenboim

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

Elliott Abrams

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that... it would be as loud as a motorcycle.

Astro Teller

Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.

Jean Reno

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Carter Burwell

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Matthew Simpson

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Joseph Hall

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Matthew Green

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Anatoly Rybakov

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Alice Thomas Ellis

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Giovanni Falcone