Death & Dying Quotes (5028 Quotes)

The fact of the matter is people are dying. And whenever people die, when women and children and innocent noncombatants die for political purposes, one has to call that terrorism,

She belongs to a Temperance Society and wears one of those badges in the shape of a bow of ribbon to show that she would never take a drink, not even brandy if she were dying. Of course by temperance they all mean the opposite - total abstinence.

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases. - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 23, 2000

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

I think that dying is something that Napoleon has thought about from the very moment the sentence was pronounced in his case.

I always laugh when I hear that a form of animation is dying. They've been saying for years that stop-motion is dead. But a few of us are still around.

The horror of what happened to Lesley Ann also killed my wife. Hindley sentenced her to a long, lingering, painful death. I just wish God had evened up the scales of justice before she died.

They wanted this to be a homicide. It's got to be a homicide because they cannot live with the fact that this is a suicide. You're the only ones that can put a stop to this, at least as far as Marlene Smith is concerned.

But I know that the despair that these young people and older people, too face is so huge, and the extreme response is suicide. Their self-destructive, self-loathing is so strong that they just can't live with themselves, and that is just untenable.

A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace by means of it one gets through many a bad night

Defense attorneys fear a jury will be overly sympathetic when they hear the details surrounding the death of this small and harmless animal.

Death is a bridge that uniteth friend with friend.

Join the Society of the Saints, and you shall not have to go down the path of Death.

My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.

So he has one outdoors. No mess, ... I'm tickled to death.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.

Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clichT-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies, nor can spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same divine principle.

O Arjuna, now I shall describe different paths departing by which, during death, the yogis do or do not come back.

Even after death such deeds are remembered and recalled.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Tim has had a struggle for a long time about what the end of his case would be, he felt all along that he would be put to death, and he vacillated between holding onto life, and letting go of life, over many months,

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.