Death Quotes

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

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.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Death is a fearful thing.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

The sole equality on earth is death.

It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

I think people can believe in anything.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

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

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.