Death Quotes

Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?

Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)

I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".

Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide

Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Leonardo Da Vinci

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

S. G. Tallentyre

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne, Death Be Not Proud

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott

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

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2

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

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Anouk Aimee

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Alfred Tennyson

For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.

Bhagavad Gita

Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.

Josef Stalin

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

H. H. Munro (Saki)

Death is as casual - And often as unexpected - As birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Jim

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

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

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Dean Koontz, Watchers

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

Longfellow