Death Quotes

13020 Death quotes by 5305 unique authors

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money. — George Burns
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. — William S. Burroughs
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. — Richard Burton
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. — Leo Buscaglia
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the… — Samuel Butler
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. — Nolan Bushnell
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. — Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. — Samuel Butler
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. — Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. — Samuel Butler
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. — Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his… — Samuel Butler
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the… — A. S. Byatt
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. — David Byrne
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — Lord Byron
The dew of compassion is a tear. — Lord Byron
They never fail who die in a great cause. — Lord Byron
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. — Lord Byron
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. — James Caan
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. — Julius Caesar
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. — Julius Caesar
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. — Taylor Caldwell
Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till… — Kirk Cameron

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