Death Quotes

Death stands at attention, obedient, expectant, ready to serve, ready to shear away the peoples en masse; ready, if called on, to pulverise, without hope of repair, what is left of civilisation. He awaits only the word of command. He awaits it from a frail, bewildered being, long his victim, now-for one occasion only-his Master.

Wait and see how you feel when the tide is running the other way. It does not seem so easy to die when death is near.

Honours should go where death and danger go.

I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Sometimes, a smooth process heralds the approach of atrophy or death.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

What will I be doing in 20 years time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I don't expect to make old bones, and what's more I don't really care.

I certainly don't have any aspirations to live to 70. It would be so boring. I will be dead and gone long before that. I won't be here... as far as I'm concerned, I've lived a full life and if I'm dead tomorrow, I don't give a damn. I've lived. I really have done it all.

When I'm dead, are they going to remember me? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares? I don't.

Working with Love and Death on 'Let Me Love You' was sort of a supernatural experience. I was mourning the loss of a loved one when I recorded the song.

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

When my heart can beat no more, I hope I die for a principle or a belief that I have lived for.