Quotes About Too Many Deaths

#1. I have died too many deaths
that were not mine.

Audre Lorde

#2. One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

Nicholas Kristof

#3. Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.

Scott M. Gimple

#4. I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection ... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.

Robert Browning

#5. Dying a thousand deaths in my head to protect you is better than losing you one time in the flesh."
~ Gustaf Raeliksen

Renee Vincent

#6. So many have wept for Jesus on His cross. As if no one else has ever suffered as He suffered. As if millions have not shuffled to worse deaths, and died unremembered.

Joe Hill

#7. Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Edward Young

#8. I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because that would cause the deaths of billions of people. It's certainly not something I'm willing to accept.

Margaret D. Klein

#9. There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

Robert E.Lee

#10. According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense.

Richard K. Morgan

#11. Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.

Susan Rice

#12. There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no price too steep, no task too difficult' approach that we take toward al Qaeda.

Dennis C. Blair

#13. People have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone. Then a person quits the world completely.

Raghu Karnad

#14. Sheldon Van Auken wrote,"The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness." Guess what he said is the best argument against it? "When Christians are sombre, joyless, self-righteous, smug, narrow, repressive - Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

John Ortberg

#15. You are always sending us to our deaths. We're soldiers, it is what we do.

B.E.L. Forsythe

#16. No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ...

George R R Martin

#17. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.

Philip Bobbitt

#18. Do people know which risks lead to many deaths and which risks lead to few?" the legal scholar Cass Sunstein asks. "They do not. In fact, they make huge blunders." Sunstein draws this observation from the work of Paul Slovic, author of The Perception of Risk.

Eula Biss

#19. The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Neal Barnard

#20. Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.

Haruki Murakami

#21. My fate is a prison. It's the only one of us who didn't need to inhabit one. I took your responsibility for those souls for you, even though their deaths are your fault. You should be forced to feel what it's like for someone to be imprisoned.

Martha Brockenbrough

#22. The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!

Francis Quarles

#23. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Joseph Addison

#24. You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.

Gavin Lyall

#25. How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

Bob Dylan

#26. The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.

Michael Greger

#27. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#28. Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

Ronald Schaffer

#29. What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?

Amy Tan

#30. The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.

Joyce Rachelle

#31. In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'.

George R R Martin

#32. We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#33. In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself.

Courtney Maum

#34. In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

John Chancellor

#35. All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson

#36. What do you know of her or of deaths and dreams?

Aporva Kala

#37. There are no separations - only connections. There are no deaths - only transformations.

Debasish Mridha

#38. ...the world is full of ghosts .... And the longer you live, the more haunted you become.... the ghosts are there to remind us that we still live, that we still have hearts that beat, flesh that burns, lungs that gasp for air.... Never forget that ..... or those deaths have no meaning.

James Rollins