Death Quotes

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

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

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Charles Feidelson, Jr.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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

George Gordon Byron

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Dave Barry

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

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

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

The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - To others, a death toll.

George Whelton

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

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

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

Anouk Aimee

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

John Donne

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".

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

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Danish prove

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897

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 first condition of immortality is death.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)

If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one - - I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds.

Hindu Spiritual

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

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 do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

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 is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Sophocles

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

A. Sachs

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

Johnny Carson

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

John Berge

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 Pratchet, Sourcery