Death Quotes

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

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.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.

I don't want to die, and I don't want to be hurt physically, but if they blow the world up... we're all out of our pain then, forget it, no more problems!

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Elvis really died the day he joined the army. That's when they killed him, and the rest was a living death.

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.

Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by the life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals.

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.