Death Quotes

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her alone shall come fulfillment to our dreams.

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
Ernest Becker

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.
James F. Bymes

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

I know for sure that at the end, the playful stranger who appears is not death but love.
Kathleen Norris

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette Davis

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

I hope the departure is joyful and I hope never to return.
Frida Kahlo

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Booth

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal after wards.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
O. J. Simpson

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
Angelina Jolie

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
Tupac Shakur

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo Neruda

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
Stanley Kubrick

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.