Death Quotes

It is worth dying to find out what life is.
~T.S. Eliot

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
~Herodotus

Death is life’s way of telling that you’ve been fired
~R. Geis

Birth, and Copulation, and Death, that’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
~T. S. Eliot

I Knew a man who once said, “death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.” ~From the movie Gladiator

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
~Francis Bacon

He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.
~Stanislas I

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ~Seneca

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one’s own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
~George Bernard Shaw

Years, following years, steal something every day;
at last they steal us from ourselves away.
~Horace

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

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. ~Mignon Mclaughlin

Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.
~Benjamin franklin

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
~ Leonardo da vinci

The goal of all life is death.
~Sigmund Freud

Death is a debt we all must pay.
~Euripides

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man’s grave is his sabbath. ~John donne

Liberty or death’ is a false dichotomy, and a phrase that can only be repeated by someone that has never had to make that choice. You don’t win wars by dying, you win them by living.
~ anonymous.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is … Delay it for a while.
~From the movie The princess Bride

I Shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
~ Albert camus

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
~C.S. Lewis

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
~Erik H. Erikson

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

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~Susan Ertz

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
~Herodotus

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
~Mahatma Gandhi

According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
~ Jerry seinfeld

Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.
~ Funny bumper sticker.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep without identity.
~Emily Bronte

Every man dies – not every man really lives.
~William Ross Wallace

Death cancels everything but truth
~ Proverb

Funeral: A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
~Ambrose Bierce

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
~Madame de stael

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ~Edvard munch

There’s nothing certain in a man’s life except this: that he must lose it. ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~William Penn

Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh.
~Marcus Aurelius Caesar

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