Death Quotes
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht
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
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.Plato, Dialogues, Apology
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.Sophocles, Electra
Give me an incubator or give me death!Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.Deane Jordan
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
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
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.Dr. Robert Schulle
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.Woody Allen
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.Dave Barry
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
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
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Behan
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Albert Einstein
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.Jean Froissart, 1359
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.Heywood Brown
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
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
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.Miguel de Cervantes
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.Edna Ferbe
Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley
That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.Danish prove
I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift? Of expressing all that is in me.Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.Alphonse Ka
