Death Quotes

13020 Death quotes by 5305 unique authors

There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I… — Langston Hughes
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching… — Emmeline Pankhurst
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and… — David Walker
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every… — John Peter Altgeld
There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure — Unknown Author
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. — Lyman Beecher
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor,… — Zebulon Pike
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death… — Daniel Berrigan
Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it… — Julia Child
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint,… — Joseph de Maistre
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination -… — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission… — Louise Erdrich
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You… — Cesare Pavese
Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us? — William Shakespeare
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is… — Arthur Schopenhauer
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such… — Edward Hoagland
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one. — Thomas Browne
Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ... — Anne Sexton
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a… — Seneca the Younger
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour. — Seneca the Younger
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca the Younger
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they… — Sun Tzu
Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. — Albert Schweitzer
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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