- In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes
- It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
Jimi Hendrix
- Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
Errol Flynn
- Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Herodotus
- No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides
- Death is the cure for all diseases.
Thomas Browne

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn
- If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou
- In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
- If we must die, we die defending our rights.
Sitting Bull
- Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr
- I’m not afraid to die.
John Wooden
- A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
Gustave Flaubert
- Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn
- I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
- When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
John Greenleaf Whittier
- I’m gonna live till I die.
Frank Sinatra
- If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Sam Levenson
- Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
- Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
- Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel
- A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno
- When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
Ayn Rand
- I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather
- The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
- Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard
- Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm
- I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Douglas MacArthur
- I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
- We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff
- Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall
- Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Bryan Procter
- I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker
- Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
Georges Bernanos
- The death of what’s dead is the birth of what’s living.
Arlo Guthrie
- All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Philip Johnson
- Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson Mizner
- Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Carter Burwell
- There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina Jolie
- Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
Bryant H. McGill
- I hope to die in the saddle seat.
Albert Ellis
- It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
Anna Akhmatova
- Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
Francis Thompson
- While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci
- The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Albert Einstein
- Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson
- The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace