Death Quotes

Sir francis bacon,
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.
Marcus Aurelius
Socrates - death may be the greatest of all human blessings....
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Brown
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Danish prove
W. e. orchard - just as there is a lower carelessness which means...
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. Munro (Saki)
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
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
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
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Buddha
He can be lethal death.
Jerry Coleman
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
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - - Ourselves.
Eda LeShan
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
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)
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Josef Stalin
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
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
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
Danish prove
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.
Samual Rutherford
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
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
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.
Peter de Gaston Levis
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.
Oliver Wendell Holmes