Death Quotes

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

Osama bin Laden

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

Olivia Newton-John

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Ovid

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Ovid

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in s...

Peter Abelard

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Peter Ackroyd

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

Peter Andre

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

Pat Boone

The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I'm sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series led to similar tears.

Paul Bloom

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

Paul D. Boyer

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

Peter Benchley

The sole equality on earth is death.

Philip James Bailey

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

Pierce Brosnan

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

Poppy Z. Brite

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

Paddy Chayefsky

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

Patricia Cornwell

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

Paula Cole

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Paulo Coelho