Unnecessary Death Quotes

#1. Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died ... ,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death," and the rest of us tiring of this inconsolable catastrophe and turning to the next one.

Norman Maclean

#2. We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.

Laura Bohannan

#3. I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

Edward Abbey

#4. Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then ... we conclude that ... the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.

Martin Luther

#5. Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.

James Jones

#6. When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#7. Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.
You couldn't be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn't be a Surplus if you were loved.

Gemma Malley

#8. Without guidance and support for patients and families approaching death, there may be unnecessary conflict, confusion, and trauma that linger long after the passing of a loved one.

Lisa J. Shultz

#9. Virgil takes a slightly mashed Twinkie from his pocket and sets this on the counter between us and Ralph. "How old is that?" I murmur. "These things have enough preservatives in them to keep them on the shelves until 2050," Virgil whispers.

Jodi Picoult

#10. If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

Henry W. Kendall

#11. One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Jerome Bruner

#12. Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

William Law

#13. Those fruity drinks better have a lot of caffeine in them or I'll never make it through World Issues.

Lisi Harrison

#14. Amateur musicians, for example, are more likely to spend their practice time playing music, whereas pros are more likely to work through tedious exercises or focus on specific, difficult parts of pieces.

Joshua Foer

#15. If the universalists are correct in saying that everyone is going to be in heaven regardless of what they believe, or the pluralists are correct that all religions lead to the same god, then the horrific death of Jesus Christ was completely unnecessary.

Robert Jeffress

#16. Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise, and they might say it's really Connery and five other guys - since he, being first and being Sean, stamped the role with his sulfurous masculinity.

Richard Corliss

#17. Growing up in America, I'd come to assume that everything I had - and did - was the newest, best, and most advanced in the world. It

Brandon Sanderson

#18. two orbs of flesh?

Robin LaFevers

#19. I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

Bud Selig

#20. Such needless death, so unnecessary, so tragic

Amy Harmon

#21. The death of a world is judgment of its inadequacy. Death removes the unnecessary and the false.

Greg Bear

#22. My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.

Robin Green

#23. The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#25. I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life matters and the promotion of understanding, conversation, and planning.

Lisa J. Shultz