Death Quotes

Bhagavad gita - for that which is born death is certain, and for...
Ray kurzweil, the age of spiritual machines: when computers exceed human intelligence - take death for example. a great deal of our...
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walke
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Percy b. shelley - death is a veil which those who live call life,...
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.
Indira Nehru Gandhi
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Sophocles, Electra
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
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
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas Alva Edison
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.
Assyrian Prove
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.
Jean Froissart, 1359
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
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
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
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Lucius Accius
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
Miguel de Cervantes
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
Oscar Wilde
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
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
Aeschylus
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Josef Stalin
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls