Death Quotes

13020 Death quotes by 5305 unique authors

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere. — Seneca the Younger
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
So love the thought of death, love it. — Anthony de Mello
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice. — David McCullough
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all… — George Bernard Shaw
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the… — Louis Pasteur
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald
If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer… — Thomas Pynchon
The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts… — A C Dixon
Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers,… — John Owen
Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own… — David Brainerd
...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be… — John Owen
We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our… — Pope Francis
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place… — Archimedes
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. — John Arbuthnot
Debate is the death of conversation. — Emil Ludwig
I definitely know that-that love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that-God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. — Thomas Browne

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