Death Quotes

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne

Against, Labor, Cure

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne

Life, Living, Shadow

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
Rita Dove

Bring, Took, Ironic

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
Kirstie Alley

Someone, Energy, Looks

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
Rob Sheffield

Black, American, Ask

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Polly Toynbee

Time, Die, Longing

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

Die, Stop, Resistance

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Wangari Maathai

Life, Country, Problem

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.
Travis Barker

Kids, Scared, Overcome

Death by starvation is slow.
Mary Austin

Slow, Starvation

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
Harry Browne

Fear, Nothing, Country

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
Veronica Franco

Women, Truth, Fight

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch

Life, Insanity, Sickness

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
Isabelle Adjani

Change, Experience, Fear

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
Jeff Goodell

Change, Nice, Enjoy

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
Daniel Boone

Situation, Danger, Constantly

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Daniel Boone

Daily, Country, Dangerous

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
Ethel Waters

Love, Him, Working

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
Alex Winter

Movies, Fight, Hitchcock

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
Jaron Lanier

Mother, After, Difficulty

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
Jack Kevorkian

United, Court, Supreme

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Jack Kevorkian

Seem, Admit, Instances

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
Jack Kevorkian

Fear, End, Agony

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
Jack Kevorkian

Bad, Human, Die

You've gotta know what death is to know life!
Jack Kevorkian

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