Death Quotes

13020 Death quotes by 5305 unique authors

When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead. — Unknown Author
Time marks us while we are marking time. — Theodore Roethke
I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers. — Rudyard Kipling
The descent to Hades is the same from every place. — Anaxagoras
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. — Blaise Pascal
I guess of all my uncles, I liked Uncle Caveman the best. We called him Uncle Caveman because he lived in a cave and because… — Jack Handey
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there. — George Bernard Shaw
Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man. — Robert A. Heinlein
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... — John Kenneth Galbraith
I'll be mellow when I'm dead. — Al Yankovic
The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!' — Jon Stewart
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
...it is only death which is hopeless. — Maria Jane McIntosh
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence… — Saint Augustine
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...… — Thomas Aquinas
When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. — George Sewell
When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that. — Duffy Daugherty
I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists. — Billy Bob Thornton
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures. — Clement Attlee
The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death. — Unknown Author
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and… — Laozi
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the… — Henri Nouwen
To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce. — Unknown Author
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount… — George S. Patton

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