Death Quotes

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

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

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

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.

Plato

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)

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

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

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

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

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

Martin Heidegge

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

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

Jordan, Robert

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

An answer is always a form of death.

John Dean

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Danish prove

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Oscar Wilde

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Adele Brookman

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. N. B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

J. Robert Oppenheime

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

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

Give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution

He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.

Heywood Brown

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.

Martin Luthe

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.

Oscar Wilde

Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Sophocles

Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.

Josef Stalin

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

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Home

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

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

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645