Death Quotes

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Simon McBurney

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

Stevie Nicks

Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

S. Jay Olshansky

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

S. Jay Olshansky

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

Susan Oliver

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Sophocles

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Sophocles

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Steven Pinker

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per batt...

Steven Pinker

The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high de...

Steven Pinker

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Salvatore Quasimodo

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

Scott Ritter

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Stephen Rea

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Sam Snead

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

Stan Sakai

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

Steven Spielberg

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Susan Sontag

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

Scott Turow

The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.

Shashi Tharoor