Top 100 The Death Quotes
#1. The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic.
Nancy Pelosi
#2. No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.
Jim Caviezel
#3. In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.
Ron White
#4. Yes, if we care enough and dare enough, we will experience disappointment. But in those moments when disappointment is washing over us and we're desperately trying to get our heads and hearts around what is or is not going to be, the death of our expectations can be painful beyond measure.
Brene Brown
#5. I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
Xavier Becerra
#6. I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece-spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. It broke my heart.
Dennis Lehane
#7. I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.
Frank Herbert
#8. Avarice is not unknown in Italy, and Rinaldo Pazzi had imbibed plenty with his native air. But his natural acquisitiveness and ambition had been whetted in America, where every influence is felt more quickly, including the death of Jehovah and the incumbency of Mammon. When
Thomas Harris
#9. I cannot help thinking that the death of the young is not in the plan of our being, and that we are ourselves greatly responsible for it. Indeed I believe we are at the beginning only of the art of living.
Georgiana Burne-Jones
#11. Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it.
Seanan McGuire
#12. For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.
Lang Leav
#13. I was a fight to the death, and I felt great.
Rick Riordan
#14. Marx and Engels openly declared that the progressive income tax and the death tax are 'economically untenable' and that they advocated them only because 'they necessitate further inroads' upon the capitalist system and are 'unavoidable' as a means of bringing about socialism.
Ludwig Von Mises
#15. For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
Tea Obreht
#16. He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#18. Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
Otto Frank
#20. The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same.
Patti Digh
#21. In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
Joseph Stalin
#22. Darker the hell, darker the life...darker the death, darker the fear..." the painter's left-hand fingers where drenched in black color, which he kept on scrolling on white paper until he made a...
"Raven...darkest like hell and life...raven darkest like fear and death...raven...nevermore
Rao Umar Javed
#24. It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.' Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.
Cole Alpaugh
#25. I see the path
I don't fear
I walk for love
But the death was near
Everything got so much pain
In the end what did I gain
B. Bhardwaz
#26. I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
Eric Holder
#28. The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me.
Kirtida Gautam
#29. It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?
Sarah Schulman
#30. He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. "You'll be the death of me, Elena." She smiled. "You need a little excitement in that boring old life of yours.
Nalini Singh
#31. From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
Giacomo Casanova
#32. When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. (The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra. It has been perhaps best defined as a Greek era in which the Greeks played no role.)
Stacy Schiff
#34. Respected political and military leaders saw the world as a Darwinian battleground, where the fittest race would emerge triumphant from a savage fight to the death.
Paul Ham
#35. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
#36. In every battle, there is a death. The loser may laugh it off if the war is short and sweet and without cost. Or the loser may bleed out, if the war is to the death.
Yasmine Galenorn
#37. That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it was inevitable that he should, but his manner of doing it. Even at this distance of time, the remembrance agonises me. There
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#38. If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.
Jimmy Carter
#39. I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
P. J. O'Rourke
#40. Augustine said he wept more for the death of Dido than he did for the death of his own saviour. What about Book Four, the best book of the best poem of the best poet?
Boris Johnson
#41. Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?
Sorin Cerin
#42. In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt
#43. What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Ian McKellen
#44. Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.
Gordon Lish
#45. To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
Janet Morris
#46. I've never had an abortion. And I don't know if I would. But, it doesn't mean that I wouldn't fight to the death for women to make their own choices for their own human bodies.
Sarah Silverman
#47. I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.
Anthony Mann
#48. That the death of God involves the death of Man, along with the birth of a new form of humanity, is orthodox Christian doctrine, a fact of which Nietzsche seems not to have been aware.
Terry Eagleton
#49. From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.
Billy Graham
#50. -I'm not sure it isn't going to kill me. But it is the death I would have chosen- if I'd known about it till now.
C.S. Lewis
#52. To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
Dag Hammarskjold
#53. Milk money: cash, cows, and the death of the American dairy farm / Kirk Kardashian; foreword by Senator Bernie
Kirk Kardashian
#54. There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent ... It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.
Jimmy Carter
#56. It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.
Kalle Lasn
#57. Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.
Sy Montgomery
#58. Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.
Jim Stanford
#59. Between the 'death bridge' and our little chat with the Queen of the Damned, I've decided I should carry a gun at all times; whether it's to defend myself or to put myself out of my own misery," Carmen rambled on nervously. "It's a win-win situation, really.
Kristen Day
#61. Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.
Robert Breault
#62. I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Patrick DeWitt
#63. American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents ... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.
Richard Louv
#64. the death cannot die
Hunk
#65. Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs.
C.S. Lewis
#66. They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!
Brad McKinniss
#67. I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.
George W. Bush
#69. God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Saint Ambrose
#70. Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.
William Trevor
#71. Inertia is the death of creativity. You have to stay in the groove. When you get out of the groove, you start to dread the work, because you know it's going to suck for a while - it's going to suck until you get back into the flow.
Austin Kleon
#72. Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.
Bob Dylan
#73. I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and
punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium.
Javier Cercas
#74. We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying
and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us
and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.
D.H. Lawrence
#75. The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse than the death itself.
Chris Cleave
#76. The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.
Frank O'Hara
#77. Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
Lee Iacocca
#78. Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.
Michael Steele
#79. I swear Dev your cock is going to be the death of us all.'
Dev just sat back and smiled unrepentantly. 'I beg to differ. My cock is like a finely tuned homing device. He led me straight to the person I needed to see. His judgement is infallible ...
Lanie Malone
#80. Predictably, his eyes widened at her beauty
then stayed wide as he beheld the death lurking beneath it.
Sarah J. Maas
#81. A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#82. Well, I should like a plan that doesn't result in the death of my heir. (Eli)
Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#83. I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
Tim Kaine
#84. I think God wants to make me pure gold, so He is burning out the dross, teaching me the meaning of the fire, the burnt offering, the death of the self-part of me.
Amy Carmichael
#85. Retribution for the death of comrades who had perished because they were sent to that death ...
Stanislaw Lem
#86. There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
Isaac Asimov
#87. McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
Jon Stewart
#88. If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.
Avery Dulles
#89. Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
Anton Webern
#90. Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
Georg Solti
#91. The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.
Victor Hugo
#92. The bones cry for the blood of the white whale,
The fat flukes arch and whack about its ears,
The death-lance churns into the sanctuary, tears
The gun-blue swingle, heaving like a flail,
And hacks the coiling life out ...
Robert Lowell
#93. Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.
John Grisham
#94. Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicted the king.
Megan Whalen Turner
#95. hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, "I am here!
Bram Stoker
#96. With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out our own salvation with diligence based on what we believe.
P.D. James
#97. Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Horace
#98. By the time she'd finished with him, with a little encouraging pat and a request that he rest quiet like a good lad, there was no point in denying it: Holly Evernight would be the death of him.
Kristen Callihan
#99. The long triangular grooves on the car had been formed within the death of an unknown creature, its vanished identity abstracted in terms of the geometry of this vehicle. How much more mysterious would be our own deaths, and those of the famous and powerful?
J.G. Ballard
#100. Alec rolled beautiful brown eyes. "No fair playing the death card."
"No fair having it to play.
Rachel Vincent
