Death Quotes

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Miguel de Cervantes

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.

Assyrian Prove

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.

Plato

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

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

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

Anaximenes

The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)

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

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizne

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Sun Tzu

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Eric Sevareid

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

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

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

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.

Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine

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

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Anouk Aimee

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Lyman Beeche

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

Mark Twain

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.

Bhagavad Gita