Death Quotes

"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."

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

"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

"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."

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective."

"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend."

"The fear of death comes from limited awareness."

"I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?"

"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."

"When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death."

"Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave."

"Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'."

"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."

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"

"The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II."

"The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death."

"I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!"

"I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it."

"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."

"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."

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

"If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East."

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

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

"There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself."

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

"Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death."

"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

"Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have."

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

"Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'"

"If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility."

"I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine."

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

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

"Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances."

"The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends."

"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."

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

"Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed."

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

"The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection."

"The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters."

"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire."

"I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face."