Death Quotes

13020 Death quotes by 5305 unique authors

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of… — Henry Fielding
Death's in the good-bye. — Anne Sexton
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and… — Salman Rushdie
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions… — Vachel Lindsay
Life, the permission to know death. — Djuna Barnes
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart… — Freya Stark
I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. — Bertrand Russell
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better… — Sonia Sotomayor
Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I. — Susan Sontag
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep. — Miguel de Cervantes
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is… — Epicurus
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear… — Epictetus
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. — Aeschylus
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start. — Anaxagoras
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever. — Ugo Betti
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live. — Robert Browning
Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going… — Jackie Kay
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. — Thomas Browne
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life. — Jean Giraudoux
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — William Hazlitt
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes… — Walter Savage Landor

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