Death Quotes

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

Martin Heidegge

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

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

Johnny Carson

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

Marcus Aurelius

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

T. S. Elliot

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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

Thomas Mann

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or 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

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Danish prove

Is there life before death.

Graffito

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

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

Woody Allen

Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

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

Joseph Addison

He can be lethal death.

Jerry Coleman

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca, Epistulae Morales

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Anthony Robbins

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

Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walke

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

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

Lyman Beeche

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

Oscar Wilde

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)

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

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