death Quotes

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Death is a fearful thing.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

The valiant never taste of death but once.