Death Quotes

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.

Woody Allen

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

Josef Stalin

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Buddha

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Oscar Wilde

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.

Miguel de Cervantes

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Richard Jeni

Give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution

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

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940

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

He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.

H. H. Munro (Saki)

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

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferbe

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.

Oscar Wilde

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

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

Alphonse Ka

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

James F. Byrnes

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

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Charles Feidelson, Jr.

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

Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.

Josef Stalin