Death Quotes

Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.

General John Stark

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

Yukio Mishima

Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?

Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)

I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift? Of expressing all that is in me.

Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Sophocles, Electra

Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

George Fabricius

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Alphonse Ka

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Jordan, Robert

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

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

Tom Hanks

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

My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.

Oscar Wilde

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

Homer, The Iliad

An answer is always a form of death.

John Dean

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

Tom Stoppard

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards

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

Aldous Huxley

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Josef Stalin

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

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

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

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

Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine

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

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.

Danish prove

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 Pratchet, Sourcery

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

Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.

Josef Stalin

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

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie