Death Quotes

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

Albert Einstein

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai

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".

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

Saki

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

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Edna Ferbe

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

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Richard Jeni

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Home

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

Dixie Lee Ray

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

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

The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.

Mark Siegle

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

A. Sachs

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

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

The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.

A. Mark Wells

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Woody Allen

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

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

David Searls

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Oscar Wilde

I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".

The first condition of immortality is death.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

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

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

Immortality - - A fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".

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

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony.

Leopold von Sacher - Masoch, Venus in Furs

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

Johnny Carson

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore