Death Quotes

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

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

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."

"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death."

"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."

"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."

"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven."

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."

"It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape."

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

"I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip."

"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."

"Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt."

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

"Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense."

"Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!"

"A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene."

"The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation."

"Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death."

"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

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

"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

"Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense."

"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."

"Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis."

"Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia."

"No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply."

"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."

"Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it."

"When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me."

"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."

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

"To awake from death is to die in peace."

"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."

"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."

"Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness."

"You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary."

"The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears."

"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?"

"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."

"The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death."

"This country is being managed to death, being public related to death."

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