Death Quotes

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Dean Koontz, Watchers

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony.

Leopold von Sacher - Masoch, Venus in Furs

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato, Dialogues, Apology

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Francis Bacon

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

Jean Anouilh

To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

Peter de Gaston Levis

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.

Anonymous

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

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

Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

An answer is always a form of death.

John Dean

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizne

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

Anaximenes

Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley

Is there life before death?

Graffito, in Belfast

It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Give death a better name or die trying.

Timothy Leary

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

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

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

Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Froude

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

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Sun Tzu