Death Quotes - Page 104

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

I want to go on living even after death!

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.