Death Quotes

"Nothing in life is promised except death."

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

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

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

"If we don't know life, how can we know death?"

"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death."

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."

"I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death."

"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

"Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom."

"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

"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."

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."

"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."

"I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit."

"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill."

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."

"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again."

"There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism."

"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."

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

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."

"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."

"My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death."

"The goal of all life is death."

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

"Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death."

"Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane."

"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient."

"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

"It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge."

"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."

"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay."

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

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