Death Quotes

Kahlil gibran - when you have solved all the mysteries of life...
Robin green, northern exposure, burning down the house, 1992 - repetition is the death of art....
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita", Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Eric Sevareid
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?
Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.
Edgar A. Shoaff
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
Woody allen, without feathers - on the plus side, death is one of the few things...
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.
Sophocles
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
Tom Stoppard
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
Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.
Deane Jordan
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.
Percy B. Shelley
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Anthony Robbins
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
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.
Pan Ku
An answer is always a form of death.
John Dean
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
Give me an incubator or give me death!
Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Tyron Edwards
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
Walt Whitman
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".
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
Sir Walter Scott
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
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.
General John Stark