Death Quotes

Homer, the iliad - it is entirely seemly for a young man killed in...
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William H. Walton
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Death is as casual - And often as unexpected - As birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
Jim
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
Is there life before death.
Graffito
Sir francis bacon - death is a friend of ours; and he that is not...
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Saki
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
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
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
George Gordon Byron
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
Oscar Wilde
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
Anaximenes
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Brown
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
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
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.
Peter de Gaston Levis
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.
Bhagavad Gita
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
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.
Bhagavad Gita
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
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
Ivan Illich
Not going home is already like death.
E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
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
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.
Emily Dickinson
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".