Death Quotes

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

Joseph Stalin

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tyron Edwards

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.

David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Froude

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

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

Tom Hanks

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Danish prove

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Saki

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

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Kahlil Gibran

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

Elbert Hubbard

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Miguel de Cervantes

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferbe

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

Tom Stoppard

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

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

Wilson Mizne

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.

Martin Luthe

Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.

Emily Dickinson

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

Virginia