Death Quotes

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Masterlinck

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.

Danish prove

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley

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 be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

Eric Hoffe

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Josef Stalin

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Miguel de Cervantes

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

Mark Twain

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Saki

Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.

Josef Stalin

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.

Confucius

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Osho, The art of Dying

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Alfred Tennyson

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

Martin Heidegge

Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.

HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles, Electra