Death Quotes

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

~ Emily Greene Balch

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

~ Dean Koontz

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

~ Kurt Cobain

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

~ Elbert Hubbard

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

~ Ayn Rand

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

~ W. C. Fields

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

~ Ivan Illich

Marriage is the death of hope.

~ Woody Allen

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

~ William Cowper

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

~ Pearl S. Buck

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

~ Paul Ricœur

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

~ Maya Angelou

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

~ Abbie Hoffman

Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.

~ Martin O'malley

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

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

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

~ Jim Carrey

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

~ Victor Hugo

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

~ Wallace Stevens

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

~ Annie Lennox

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

~ Judy Garland

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

~ Garrison Keillor

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

~ Carter Burwell

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

~ Allen Klein

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

~ Pope Francis

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

~ Sun Tzu

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

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

~ Thomas Hobbes

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

~ Elizabeth I

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

~ Jon Krakauer

The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.

~ Steven Pinker

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.

~ Noam Chomsky

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

~ Edmund Spenser

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

~ Richard Louv

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi