Death Quotes

Graffito - is there life before death....
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
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
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
Marcel Ayme
Martin luthe - in this life, christ is an example, showing us...
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Thomas Browne
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
John Berge
Sir walter scott - and come he slow, or come he fast, it is but...
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
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
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
Don Delillo
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
Is there life before death?
Graffito, in Belfast
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser, 1590
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
A. Mark Wells
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Kahlil Gibran
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beeche
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
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. N. B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.
J. Robert Oppenheime
Give me an incubator or give me death!
Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
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
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
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
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards
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, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
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
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)
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Sophocles, Electra
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.
Sophocles, Electra
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
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon