Death Quotes

Hp lovecraft, from beyond - i have harnessed the shadows that stride from...
Marcus aurelius - death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is...
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Carl Sandburg
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
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
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.
Jean Froissart, 1359
James f. byrnes - too many people are thinking of security instead...
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
Osho, The art of Dying
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Saki
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Dixie Lee Ray
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferbe
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Richard Jeni
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
Heywood Brown
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Masterlinck
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
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
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
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.
Anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.
Bhagavad Gita
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
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
Anouk Aimee
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Maya Angelou
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe