Death Quotes

Epicurus - it is possible to provide security against other...
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
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Sophocles
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.
Samual Rutherford
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
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Danish prove
Maurice masterlinck - all our knowledge merely helps us to die a more...
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
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - To others, a death toll.
George Whelton
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Dixie Lee Ray
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
Anouk Aimee
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one - - I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds.
Hindu Spiritual
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Kahlil Gibran
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
Don Delillo
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferbe
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Buddha
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, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
Heywood Brown
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
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
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil Gibran
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Charles Feidelson, Jr.
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