Death Quotes
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
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
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Sir Francis Bacon
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
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
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
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.William Hazlitt
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
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
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.Homer, The Iliad
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
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
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
Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.Deane Jordan
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
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.General John Stark
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
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.Homer, The Iliad
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
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
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.Saki
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.Danish prove
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
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
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
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
