Death Quotes

13020 Death quotes by 5305 unique authors

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. — Tennessee Williams
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies. — Seneca the Younger
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. — William Hazlitt
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not. — Epicurus
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far,… — Charles Lindbergh
One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life… — Seneca the Younger
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination. — George Bernard Shaw
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be… — Stanislav Grof
If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final. — Cyndi Lauper
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever. — W. Somerset Maugham
Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and… — George Carlin
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary. — Remy de Gourmont
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their… — Otto von Bismarck
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither… — Albert Einstein
Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism. — Albert Einstein
Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,… — Charles Darwin
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose… — Lewis Mumford

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