Death Quotes

"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."

"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

"A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever."

"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

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

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."

"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

"A useless life is an early death."

"A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death."

"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."

"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

"All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind."

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom."

"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."

"Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it."

"Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people."

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."

"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!"

"Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure."

"As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need."

"As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death."

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

"As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death."

"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"

"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all."

"As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation."

"As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be."

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."

"At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple."

"Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead."

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."

"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences."

"Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death."

"Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns."

"Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create - in one generation - closing the gap. That's why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real."

"Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives."

"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."

"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."

"Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges."

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