Death Quotes

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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

Sophocles

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

Virginia

Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

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

I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Jordan, Robert

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

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

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I would fain die a dry death.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1

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

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

Eric Hoffe

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.

A. Mark Wells

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

Plato

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walke

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.

Miguel de Cervantes

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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

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

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...

HP Lovecraft, From Beyond

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

S. G. Tallentyre

It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Carl Sandburg

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Sun Tzu

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius