Death Quotes

George santayana, soliloquies in england, 1922,
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon
Mary renault, the praise singer, 1978 - it is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one...
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu
Homer, the iliad - even when someone battles hard, there is an equal...
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
Marcel Ayme
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beeche
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
Heywood Brown
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
Tom Hanks
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling
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
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
Danish prove
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Masterlinck
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A penny for your thoughts? A dollar for your death.
Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple
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
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
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).
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
Tom Stoppard
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Kahlil Gibran
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
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
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. Munro (Saki)
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
Sir B. Brodie
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005