Death Quotes

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius

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

John Donne

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

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. N. B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

J. Robert Oppenheime

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

Longfellow

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia

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

Dixie Lee Ray

Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.

Anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate

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)

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Danish prove

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

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

George Fabricius

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)

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

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizne

Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.

Josef Stalin

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

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.

Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine

Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles