Death Defiance Quotes

I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

The only way to kill death is through photography.

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.

The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

When you're in the military, you teeter on the edge of that line of life and death. The reason you feel so alive when you come through is because you know you've cheated death - and that and the adrenaline rush is addictive, no question.

In a way I'm probably immortal.

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

People say you're flirting with death but really you're flirting with life.

People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.