Death

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet And if thou wilt, remember And if thou wilt, forget.

- Christina Georgina Rossetti Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

- Andrew A. ‘Andy’ Rooney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.

- Joan Baez Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

- Robert Toombs Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

- Gloria Swanson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

- John Strachan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

- Keith Richards Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Then I did Japanese Death Poem. I played seven or eight different characters. It's the most challenging thing I've ever done on stage.

- Austin Peck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

- Edvard Munch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

- Ric Keller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

- Peter DeFazio Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.

- Lincoln Davis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

People are worried sick. Death now comes on very, very short notice.

- Attallah Zeidan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

- Davy Crockett Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There was no joy going to the park and I couldn't figure out why I was playing. When my mom died, I came home from the Cape Cod League. I drove home, saw her take her last breath, went to the funeral and left the next day. I never really grieved, and it hit me 2 12 years later. You never know when something is going to hit you. It could be the death of a parent, a grandparent or friend. You have to handle it the best way you can.

- Joe Girardi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We don't have a cause of death at the moment but looks like it was a very peaceful passing.

- James Kelly Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It wakes you up. It slaps you around. There was a period of time when I first found out that you wake thinking of death a lot. It's an uneasy feeling.

- George Karl Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

- Emma Goldman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Marilyn's Last Words Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death.

- John Miner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed.

- John Cory Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

- Huey Newton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is death by a thousand cuts. Even if they win the preponderance of cases, they are still in the unenviable position of having to defend against literally thousands of cases.

- Steve Brozak Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There was no tragedy in his death -death is a magnificent ally it untangles knots.

- Gilbert Parker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

- Jean Fontaine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

- Lars Ulrich Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes