Death Quotes

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

David Searls

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

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

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Kahlil Gibran

Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.

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

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

Give death a better name or die trying.

Timothy Leary

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Saki

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

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

John Donne

What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.

Danish prove

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.

Homer, The Iliad

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Tom Hanks

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

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Dave Barry

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Eric Sevareid

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

Martin Heidegge

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sophocles

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

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

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

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

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

A. Sachs