Death Quotes

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

"I'm gonna live till I die."

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

"When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction."

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

"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

"I'm not afraid to die."

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

"If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again."

"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."

"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first."

"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."

"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."

"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

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

"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes."

"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."

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

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

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

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

"It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life."

"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."

"Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body."

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."

"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."

"Death is a fearful thing."

"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."

"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."

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

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

"Man dies of cold, not of darkness."

"'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it."

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

"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."

"Give me liberty or give me death."

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

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

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?"

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."

"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time."

"Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death."

"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."

"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."