801. I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. — Brendan Behan
802. They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. — Arthur Schopenhauer
803. I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. — Jean Giraudoux
804. In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. — Dag Hammarskjold
805. Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. — Donald Cargill
806. I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. — Willa Cather
807. Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead. — Giacomo Casanova
808. I’m very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What’s most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. — Hugh Hefner
809. When I listen to music, I don’t want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction. — Jonathan Davis
810. I don’t think of death in a romantic way anymore. — Robert Smith
811. 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
812. Normality is death. — Theodor Adorno
813. When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. — Brendan Behan
814. Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. — John Milton
815. Call no man happy till he is dead. — Aeschylus
816. To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. — Samuel Butler
817. Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. — Samuel Butler
818. I’m scared to death of being poor. It’s like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It’s my pet paranoia. — Cher
819. No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
820. Death is just life’s next big adventure. — J. K. Rowling
821. Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. — David Herbert Lawrence
822. On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. — Hu Shih
823. Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt. — Suge Knight
824. Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. — Samuel Johnson
825. Death is feared as birth is forgotten. — Douglas Horton
826. 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 M. Hutchins
827. So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. — Laurence Sterne
828. The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. — George Meredith
829. The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group – to say nothing of gay marriage – are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. — Jeffrey Kluger
830. As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won’t be put to death. — Paul Simon
831. The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death. — Stanislav Grof
832. Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. — Ken Kesey
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833. You haven’t lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. — Vance Havner
834. An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. — Stanislav Grof
835. If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. — Jean de la Bruyere
836. ‘Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. — Marquis de Sade
837. There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings – that is their paradox. — Jane Smiley
838. For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. — Aeschylus
839. When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. — Russell Baker
840. I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? — Deepak Chopra
841. If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death. — Paul Lynde
842. I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs! — Kirk Hammett
843. We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free. — Bill Hicks
844. Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. — Paul Theroux
845. 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
846. There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. — Soren Kierkegaard
847. Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. — Ernest Hemingway
848. As long as you don’t make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that’s condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. — Jeanne Moreau
849. It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape. — Voltaire
850. Death is a fearful thing. — William Shakespeare
851. If death is in the room, it’s pretty interesting. But I would also say that I’m interested in getting myself to believe that it’s going to happen to me. I’m interested in it, because if you’re not, you’re nuts. It’s really de facto what we’re here to find out about. — George Saunders
852. Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. — Tecumseh
853. Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff. — Mariah Carey
854. Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
855. I’m in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer’s, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year. — Marcia Wallace
856. Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly
857. Man always dies before he is fully born. — Erich Fromm
858. Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. — Angela Davis
859. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. — Angelina Jolie
860. Our life is made by the death of others. — Leonardo da Vinci
861. When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death. — Dennis Quaid
862. Belief is the death of intelligence. — Robert Anton Wilson
863. To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck
864. A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. — Lucius Accius
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865. All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. — Isabel Allende
866. I’m not on the run from anything and I’m not at all clear about what I’m running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I’m totally exhausted. — Fiona Shaw
867. There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. — Stanislav Grof
868. I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. — Laura Linney
869. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. — Thomas Mann
870. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
871. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee. — John Donne
872. The American people are not just being taxed to death they’re being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life’s work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government. — J. D. Hayworth
873. It’s not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it’s been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. — Cate Blanchett
874. As a kid, all I thought about was death. — Maurice Sendak
875. The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. — Sting
876. 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
877. I’m possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. — Daniel Radcliffe
878. Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. — Jerry Garcia
879. Death is an absolute marvel. — William Shatner
880. Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. — David Hume
881. Grumbling is the death of love. — Marlene Dietrich
882. Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile. — Julie Burchill
883. Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart. — Phoebe Cary
884. But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I’ve failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don’t get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. — Emma Thompson
885. All those vitamins aren’t to keep death at bay, they’re to keep deterioration at bay. — Jeanne Moreau
886. Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. — Georg Hermes
887. As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven. — Douglas Horton
888. Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. — Sun Tzu
889. You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. — Bob Dylan
890. If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. — Michelangelo
891. In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. — P. J. O’Rourke
892. Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
893. I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
894. O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. — Anne Boleyn
895. The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — W. H. Auden
896. People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. — Jim Morrison
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897. If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? — Chuck Palahniuk
898. Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. — Charles de Montesquieu
899. Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. — Thomas Carlyle
900. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
901. Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare
902. When I die, don’t let my death stop the resistance. — Muqtada al Sadr
903. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. — Paulo Coelho
904. When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. — George Eliot
905. The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful! — Heather Mills
906. Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. — Boris Pasternak
907. Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato
908. I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity’s relationship with God. — Timothy Radcliffe
909. Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. — Horace Mann
910. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. — Margaret Sanger
911. Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. — Alexander Smith
912. When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can’t afford, they are condemning good people to death. — Tammy Bruce
913. I think life is sacred, whether it’s abortion or the death penalty. — Tim Kaine
914. You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. — Joel Osteen
915. Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
916. Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful. — Jeanne Moreau
917. The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. — Florence Nightingale
918. I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve’s character’s emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan’s death, which I thought was exploitative. — Margot Kidder
919. Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. — Marcus Aurelius
920. The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison
921. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. — Thomas Paine
922. I’ve always been scared to death of pain – afraid, even, to think of it. — Loretta Young
923. When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. — George Eliot
924. Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. — Joseph Hall
925. Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. — Bryant H. McGill
926. Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. — Kevin Spacey
927. It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. — Christy Turlington
928. An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. — Madalyn Murray O’Hair
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929. I know I’m drinking myself to a slow death, but then I’m in no hurry. — Robert Benchley
930. I’m working myself to death. — Alan Ladd
931. Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. — James Anthony Froude
932. Death is a distant rumor to the young. — Andy Rooney
933. 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
934. Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht
935. Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. — Saul Alinsky
936. It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God’s mercy and Christ’s merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband’s arms, and to lie down with Him. — Donald Cargill
937. There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly. — Jennifer Lopez
938. There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there’s fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out. — Peter Mullan
939. I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. — A. N. Wilson
940. It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. — Charles de Gaulle
941. For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night. — Sophocles
942. The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. — Jean de la Bruyere
943. Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live. — Jean de la Bruyere
944. I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. — Anais Nin
945. Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. — David Herbert Lawrence
946. Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — Lord Byron
947. All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. — Leo Tolstoy
948. The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war. — Cynthia McKinney
949. Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. — Mahatma Gandhi
950. Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. — Emily Dickinson
951. Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
952. Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. — Carl Sagan
953. The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. — Stanislav Grof
954. My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England’s hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. — Elizabeth I
955. For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. — George Santayana
956. The drink? Yes, I’ve had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia. — Paul Gascoigne
957. I can’t let my mother’s death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
958. If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. — J. B. Priestley
959. Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? — W. C. Fields
960. Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. — Edward Young
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961. The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler
962. I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. — Alfred Nobel
963. The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind. — A. N. Wilson
964. The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. — Jean Paul
965. Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. — George Eliot
966. Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California. — Rick Perry
967. Even when you’re making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it’s part of my dramatic viewpoint. I’m not sure why exactly. — Gus Van Sant
968. Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. — Abu Bakr
969. The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that’s real most of that whiny stuff isn’t real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death. — Jonathan Davis
970. A friend said to me, ‘Be glad for your troubles – they strengthen you.’ Well, if that’s the truth, I’m going to be so strong they’ll have to beat me to death! — Sonia Johnson
971. The death of what’s dead is the birth of what’s living. — Arlo Guthrie
972. I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
973. Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. — Alfred Adler
974. Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. — P. J. O’Rourke
975. I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation. — T. D. Jakes
976. Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death… but he’s not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table. — Giada De Laurentiis
977. We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. — Thornton Wilder
978. Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
979. A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people. — Barbara Corcoran
980. To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam. — Giada De Laurentiis
981. Emigration is no longer a solution it’s a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they’re knocking on doors that are not open. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
982. An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. — Jose Marti
983. I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn’t 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it. — Harvey Weinstein
984. The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. — A. N. Wilson
985. Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. — John Wayne
986. Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. — Miguel de Cervantes
987. In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. — Thomas Wolfe
988. We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. — Robert Green Ingersoll
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