Death Quotes

96. Death is a fearful thing.

^{William Shakespeare}

97. It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

^Epicurus

98. The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

^{W. H. Auden}

99. To have died once is enough.

^Virgil

100. I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays themagain.

^{Elie Wiesel}

Death Quotes 100 – 200

101. Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

^Solon

102. I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

^{Stephen Leacock}

103. Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

^{Matthew Green}

104. If nothing else, there’s comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

^{Chuck Palahniuk}

105. He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

^{Adam Clarke}

106. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

^Buddha

107. ‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

^{Lord Byron}

108. I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

^{Woody Allen}

109. I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

^{Mark Twain}

110. Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

^{Daniel Barenboim}

111. Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

^Aeschylus

112. Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

^{Miguel de Unamuno}

113. 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}

114. Death’s in the good-bye.

^{Anne Sexton}

115. Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will drawnigh.

^{Robert Bolt}

116. Everything that gets born dies.

^{Morrie Schwartz}

117. Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright.

^{Alice Thomas Ellis}

118. When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

^{George Eliot}

119. If you don’t have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

^{Scott Caan}

120. Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

^{Friedrich Durrenmatt}

121. For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

^{Juliette Binoche}

122. All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

^{Maurice Maeterlinck}

123. Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

^{Ernst Moritz Arndt}

124. Give me liberty or give me death.

^{Patrick Henry}

125. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

^{Norman Cousins}

126. Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

^{Jim Morrison}

127. Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

^{Joseph Stalin}

128. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

^{Rabindranath Tagore}

129. Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

^{Bill Shankly}

130. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

^{Arthur Schopenhauer}

131. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

^{Albert Einstein}

132. We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

^Montesquieu

133. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

^Epicurus

134. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

^Socrates

135. Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

^{Sun Tzu}

136. I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

^{Evelyn Beatrice Hall}

137. Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

^{John Galsworthy}

138. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

^Buddha

139. Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

^{Heinrich Heine}

140. Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

^{Arthur Koestler}

141. Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

^{John Wayne}

142. Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

^{Hilaire Belloc}

143. The goal of all life is death.

^{Sigmund Freud}

144. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

^{Miyamoto Musashi}

145. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

^{Fidel Castro}

146. Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

^{Alexander Smith}

147. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

^{Isaac Asimov}

148. I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

^{Tupac Shakur}

149. If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

^{Kurt Cobain}

150. Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

^{Lao Tzu}

151. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

^{Khalil Gibran}