Death Quotes - Page 93

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Routine is the death to heroism.

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

The death sentence is a barbaric act.

I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.