Death Quotes

Sir walter scott, marmion (1808) - and come he slow, or come he fast, it is but...
Marcus aurelius - death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is...
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
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia
Virginia woolf, the waves (1931) - i have lost friends, some by death... others...
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt
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
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
The first condition of immortality is death.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Nancy Reagan
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.
Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil Gibran
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.
Josef Stalin
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
An answer is always a form of death.
John Dean
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.
Edgar A. Shoaff
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
Sir Walter Scott
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
John Donne
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.
Pan Ku
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Tyron Edwards
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
Don Delillo
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha