Death Quotes

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Martin Heidegge

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 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

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or 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

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.

David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

Yukio Mishima

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Adele Brookman

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

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

Albert Einstein

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

Alfred Tennyson

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

S. G. Tallentyre

If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

Donald H. Rumsfeld, on Iraqi Resistance Fighters

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.

Anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate

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

Angelina Jolie

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.

Samual Rutherford

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

John Donne

Death is as casual - And often as unexpected - As birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Jim

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Froude

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

Nancy Reagan

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Eric Hoffe

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Oscar Wilde

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

Give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Sir Francis Bacon

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.

Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.

Anonymous