Death Quotes

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

Danish prove

A penny for your thoughts? A dollar for your death.

Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.

Albert Einstein

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act

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

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita

Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

Donald H. Rumsfeld, on Iraqi Resistance Fighters

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

Joseph Stalin

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

Elbert Hubbard

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)

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

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

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

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

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

Sophocles, Electra

Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

I would fain die a dry death.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1

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

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Joseph Addison

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - - Ourselves.

Eda LeShan

Give me an incubator or give me death!

Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H

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

Oscar Wilde