Death Quotes

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift? Of expressing all that is in me.

Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Alphonse Ka

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

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.

Oscar Wilde

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

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

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

Francis Bacon

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Oscar Wilde

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Tom Hanks

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Dean Koontz, Watchers

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

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

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

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

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

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

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

George Gordon Byron

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

William H. Walton

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas Alva Edison

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

T. S. Elliot

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

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

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson