Quotes: Death

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn’t. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it’s a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I’m scared to death.

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.