Death Quotes
Is there life before death?Graffito, in Belfast
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - To others, a death toll.George Whelton
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.Tryon Edwards
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.Aeschylus
Give me an incubator or give me death!Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
There is something about poverty that smells like death.Zora Neale Hurston
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.Sophocles
Give death a better name or die trying.Timothy Leary
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.Eric Hoffe
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.Martin Luthe
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.Socrates
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.Emily Dickinson
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.Thomas Mann
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.Danish prove
