Death Quotes

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Tom Hanks

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia

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

Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.

Percy B. Shelley

Give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution

Nothing in the world is as certain as death.

Jean Froissart, 1359

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

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Masterlinck

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott

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

Thomas Mann

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

John Dryden

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

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

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

I would fain die a dry death.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

S. G. Tallentyre

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Martin Heidegge

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

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

Death is as casual - And often as unexpected - As birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Jim

Immortality - - A fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff