Death Quotes

207. An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

^{Jose Ortega y Gasset}

208. There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

^{Fran Lebowitz}

209. Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

^{Dalai Lama}

210. Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

^{Ambrose Bierce}

211. I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

^{Derek Jarman}

212. Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

^{John Keats}

213. The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

^Lucan

214. Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

^{Mahatma Gandhi}

215. One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

^{Jean-Paul Sartre}

216. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

^{Charles Bukowski}

217. Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

^{R. D. Laing}

218. 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}

219. Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

^{Dag Hammarskjold}

220. Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

^{Havelock Ellis}

221. 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.

^{Hermann Hesse}

222. Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

^{Jean de La Fontaine}

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

^{Lord Byron}

224. I hate death; it takes people away from you. You’re left feeling rudderless.

^{John Lydon}

225. Give the peasants neither life nor death.

^{Tokugawa Ieyasu}

226. I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

^{Hideki Tojo}

227. The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

^{Chiang Kai-shek}

228. Inactivity is death.

^{Benito Mussolini}

229. Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

^{Alfred North Whitehead}

230. Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

^{Myles Munroe}

231. The death of the forest is the end of our life.

^{Dorothy Stang}

232. My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England’s hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

^{Elizabeth I}

233. Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

^{Tennessee Williams}

234. The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

^{Patrick Swayze}

235. The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

^{Jean Paul}

236. Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.

^{Roger Scruton}

237. I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

^{Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

238. Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

^{Fyodor Dostoevsky}

239. Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

^{William Cowper}

240. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

^{Charles Frohman}

241. I definitely wouldn’t wish death on anyone.

^{The Notorious B.I.G.}

242. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

^{Ray Kurzweil}

243. Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

^{Vladimir Nabokov}

244. If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God’s courage and his help.

^{Max Lucado}

245. Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

^{George Whitefield}

246. Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

^{Francois de La Rochefoucauld}

247. Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

^{George Bernard Shaw}

248. Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control.

^{Claire Wineland}

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

^{Oscar Wilde}

250. Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

^{Soren Kierkegaard}

251. The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

^Sting

252. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

^{Michel de Montaigne}

253. We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

^{Judy Garland}

254. Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

^{Pierre Teilhard de Chardin}

255. To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

^{J. K. Rowling}