Death Quotes

Emily dickinson - because i could not stop for death - - he kindly...
Homer, the iliad - it is entirely seemly for a young man killed in...
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.
W. E. Orchard
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
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.
Oscar Wilde
For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.
Bhagavad Gita
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
Heywood brown - he who dies a thousand deaths meets the final...
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, Death Be Not Proud
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
Danish prove
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Buddha
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
The first condition of immortality is death.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Lucius Accius
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Maya Angelou
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
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil Gibran
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
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
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.
Marcus Aurelius
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
George Santayana
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.
Assyrian Prove
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
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)
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser, 1590
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
Is there life before death?
Graffito, in Belfast