Death Quotes

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizne

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

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

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).

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

Sophocles, Electra

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Dave Barry

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

He can be lethal death.

Jerry Coleman

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

John Dryden

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...

HP Lovecraft, From Beyond

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

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

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?

Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)

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

Tryon Edwards

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

Deane Jordan

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

Publilius Syrus

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.

W. E. Orchard

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.

Woody Allen

Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Francis Bacon

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia

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

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony.

Leopold von Sacher - Masoch, Venus in Furs

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

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)