Death Quotes

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

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

If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one - - I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds.

Hindu Spiritual

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

Lucius Accius

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

Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

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

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

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

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Thomas Mann

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Adele Brookman

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles, Electra

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

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

I would fain die a dry death.

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

The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.

Mark Siegle

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

Immortality - - A fate worse than death.

Edgar A. Shoaff

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.

Deane Jordan

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

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

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Homer, The Iliad

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

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

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

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

The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.

A. Mark Wells