Death Quotes

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

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

Maurice Masterlinck

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. N. B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

J. Robert Oppenheime

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Danish prove

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

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

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

Anaximenes

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

Saki

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferbe

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

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

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.

Plato

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

William H. Walton

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Brown

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

George Santayana

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

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

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Anouk Aimee

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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

Josef Stalin

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizne

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson