Death Quotes

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
Mark twain - on his deathbed death, the only immortal who...
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
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
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
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Josef Stalin
Tryon edwards - every parting is a form of death, as every...
Lucius accius - a man whose life has been dishonourable is not...
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.
Unknown
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
Tom Hanks
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 Pratchet, Sourcery
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
T. S. Elliot
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
A penny for your thoughts? A dollar for your death.
Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Woody Allen
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Eric Sevareid
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Sophocles, Electra
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas Alva Edison
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
Tom Stoppard
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Swami Sivanada
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Carl Sandburg
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
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
Is there life before death?
Graffito, in Belfast
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Maya Angelou
I am sailing out along parallel 32. 5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean.
Muammar Qaddafi
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls