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• “Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.”

  Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: To Dr. G. M. Gilbert, after receiving the death sentence. Quoted in "Nuremberg Diary" - by G. M. Gilbert - History - 1995

• “Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!”

  Martin Bormann (1900–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" - Page 446 - by Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993.

• “Does a man’s existence change in any way when he removes his overcoat? Neither does it change when death removes the overcoat of his body. He’s still the same person. No wiser. No happier. No better off. Exactly the same. "Death is merely continuation at another level.”

  Richard Matheson (1926–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.”

  Dana Gioia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What life refused, to gain by death he thought: For life and death are but indifferent things, And of themselves not to be shunned nor sought, But for the good or ill that either brings.”

  William Alexander (1567–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.(Ch 9)”

  Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Then up he rose, and forth they went Away from battleground, fortress, tent, Mountain, wilderness, field and farm, Death and the General, arm in arm. Death and General Putnam.”

  Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts Flashbacks waking me up. I get drunk, but it's not enough, 'Cause the morning comes and you're not my baby. I look through the windows of this love, Even though we boarded them up. Chandelier's still flickering here, 'Cause I can't pretend it's ok when it's not. It's death by a thousand cuts.”

  Taylor Swift (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In comparison with 2006, the death rate has decreased by two times, and it is the lowest since the formation of the army. But we can not say this is a good result, because even one death is a loss for us.”

  Mikael Harutyunyan (born 1946) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in 2008 article. [about the death of soldiers, January 2008]

• “There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.”

  Peter Greenaway (born 1942) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In an interview in Cineaste, 1991

• “There is no death—the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an insufficient name, Faint recognition of that unknown Life— That Power whose shadow is the Universe.”

  Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Who rules you, nomads? Do you answer to someone's will besides your own? Are you free to choose your own path, or will the Volturi decide how you will live? "I came to witness. I stay to fight. The Volturi care nothing for the death of a child. They seek the death of our free will.”

  Stephenie Meyer (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death. Who owns all of space? Death.”

  Ted Hughes (1930–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It’s like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it’s considered a successful marriage.”

  Peter S. Beagle (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death.”

  Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The death penalty is what you would call an oxymoron. Death is not a penalty; it's an escape. They treat me like a trophy, like they got me, they’re gonna kill me, and they won. They didn't win. In the crudest terms, 168 to 1.”

  Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Interview for American Terrorist (2001) by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck

• “If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more.”

  Sidney Poitier (1927–2022) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier", O Magazine (October 2000)

• “Alzheimer’s disease is death before death, and I’m terrified of it.”

  Joey Comeau (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”

  Zeno of Citium (334–263 BC) said by 263 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Man's death by sins is more than his death by fate and his life by charity is more than his life by age.”

  Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) said by 835 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Imagine how we would feel if I began this section saying, Today, violence against women is rightly applauded. We would know I favored the death of women; when we applaud for violence against men, we favor the death of men. We do it because we have learned that the more effectively we prepare men to sacrifice themselves, the more we are protected.”

  Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “While we call role models 'leaders', most 'leaders' are really followers. Most 'leaders' follow their bribes. And we are the people who offer the bribes. We in essence give men two bribes to risk their lives: pay and praise... A man who self-selects for a death profession expects his body to be used in exchange for pay. The unspoken motto of the death professions is 'My body, not my choice.'”

  Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You fail, Death-Lord! You destroy the instrument, but not its music. With all your power you have gained only a broken shell." In that moment, when the harp had been silenced, arose the songs of birds, the chiming of brooks, the humming of wind through grass and leaves; and all these voices took up the strands of melody, more beautiful than before. And the Lord of Death fled in terror of life.”

  Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial - whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.”

  Anna Politkovskaya (1958–2006) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in "Poisoned by Putin: The horror of Beslan was made still worse by the intimidation of Russia's servile media" (9 September 2004), The Guardian, United Kingdom: Guardian News and Media Limited

• “Crookebackt hee was, toothshaken, and blere eyed, Went on three feete, and somtyme, crept on fowre, With olde lame boanes, that ratled by his syde, His scalpe all pild, and hee with eld forlore: His withred fist still knocking at Death's dore, Fumbling, and driveling, as hee drawes his breath, For briefe, the shape and messenger of Death.”

  Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608) said by 1608 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.”

  Ursula Goodenough (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Death, we are told, should be left to God. We do not leave birth to God. We space births. We prevent births. We arrange births. Man should learn to become the lord of death as well as the master of birth.”

  Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Death did not come to my mother Like an old friend. She was a mother, and she must Conceive him. Up and down the bed she fought crying Help me, but death Was a slow child Heavy.”

  Josephine Miles (1911–1985) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Conception" (1974) st. 1–2; Collected Poems, University of Illinois Press, 1983

• “I think you look on death as your friend,” she murmured. “That is a strange friend for a young man to have.” “The only faithful friend in this world,” he said. “Death is always sure to be at your side.”

  Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.”

  William Mountford (1816–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.”

  William Mountford (1816–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Anyone who really carries out this existence [ of the Discalced Carmelites ] in spirit and letter must see it as a foretaste of death, of the radical and irrevocable parting from all things that make life rich, sweet and attractive. It is a venturing into death in the hope of receiving a new, mysterious life from the hand of the Lord.”

  Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times—it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself. It is not the death rattle in the throat of Western civilization which is surprising; it is the fact that millions of Americans believe that the death rattle is a beautiful song!”

  George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?”

  Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Death a thousand times to the hired Muslim Brothers, Death a thousand times to the Muslim Brothers, the criminal Brothers, the corrupt Brothers.”

  Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!”

  Javad Alizadeh (born 1953) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in Humor & Caricature (January 1996), p. 3

• “And death? I don’t fear death. I dread the absence of it.”

  Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Collective human suffering easily becomes an abstraction... being unable to multiply death or suffering by 100,000. This... is a number, an abstraction. One death is a tragedy. 100,000 deaths are statistics. So it must also seem to men in high offices.”

  Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Women believed in death. Without exception. It was part of their makeup. Whereas men refused to face up to it. Not only death, in fact, but life, too: a man, learning that his wife or girlfriend is pregnant, reacts like some beast of the field - "I can't believe it's true!" - while women look at the same situation as either happy news or a momentary inconvenience.”

  Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.”

  John Pilger (1939–2023) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: This Much I know" The Observer (13 November 2005).

• “One death is as good as another, if death is what you are courting.”

  James Blish (1921–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.”

  Paul Enns (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But if physical death is the price that a man must pay to free his children and his white brethren from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing could be more redemptive. This is the type of soul force that I am convinced will triumph over the physical force of the oppressor.”

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The meaning of this story is not found in the drowning of the Egyptian soldiers, for no one should rejoice at the death or defeat of a human being. Rather, this story symbolizes the death of evil and of inhuman oppression and unjust exploitation.”

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If physical death is the price that some must pay to free their children and their white brothers from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”

  Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.”

  George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.”

  Woody Allen (born 1935) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" from The New York Times (1 December 1975).

• “Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.”

  Woody Allen (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife — a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.”

  Woody Allen (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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