Death Quotes

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

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

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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

Carl Sandburg

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - - Ourselves.

Eda LeShan

If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

Donald H. Rumsfeld, on Iraqi Resistance Fighters

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

A. Sachs

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Don Delillo

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

Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Sophocles, Electra

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

Give me an incubator or give me death!

Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H

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

George Fabricius

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

Yukio Mishima

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Francis Bacon

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll