Death Quotes

Voltaire - i disapprove of what you say, but will defend to...
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Charles Feidelson, Jr.
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
Heywood brown - he who dies a thousand deaths meets the final...
Give death a better name or die trying.
Timothy Leary
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry
Oscar wilde - the mystery of love is greater than the mystery...
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
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
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
Elbert Hubbard
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. Fumas
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.
Assyrian Prove
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Sophocles, Electra
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Sir Francis Bacon
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato, Dialogues, Apology
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.
Pan Ku
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita", Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne
The first condition of immortality is death.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Not going home is already like death.
E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.
Jean Froissart, 1359
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
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
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
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
John Donne
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.
General John Stark
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie
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 comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
George Fabricius
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
Latin Prove
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