Death Quote by William Hazlitt

Death cancels everything but truth

— Proverb

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize…

— Edwin S. Shneidman

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

— Socrates

Death, like virtue, has its degrees.

— James O'Barr

I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges…

— Vachel Lindsay

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is…

— Susan Sontag

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

— John Pearson

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

— E. M. Forster

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are…

— Hannah Arendt

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of…

— Sadegh Hedayat

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

— Walter Benjamin