Death Quotes

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

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 Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.

A. Mark Wells

Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Give death a better name or die trying.

Timothy Leary

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

Mark Twain

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

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Josef Stalin

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

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

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, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

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

Wilson Mizne

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Alphonse Ka

The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

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

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai

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

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.

David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle