Quotes on death
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.
Mishima, Yukio
The first condition of immortality is death.
Author, Unknown
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Twain, Mark
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Dyke, Henry Van
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
Not going home is already like death.
Author, Unknown
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Twain, Mark
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Whitman, Walt
The goal of all life is death.
Freud, Sigmund
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maeterlinck, Maurice
I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Galdos, Benito Perez
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
Collins, Mortimer
Far or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanished gods to me appear;And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings
Epicurus
If we don't know life, how can we know death
Confucius
He can be lethal death.
Coleman, Jerry
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Twain, Mark
I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death. Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through.
Adelman, Sybil
Here at last. We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built. Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Plath, Sylvia
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Rooney, Andy
And we live in an amazing world. And yet, in the midst of our world, there's a lot of folks who are dying and will die.
Bush, George W.
When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.
Mencken, H.L.
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
Furnas, J.J.
More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more Muslims - a lot of Muslims have died - I don't know the exact count - at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill.
Bush, George W.
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Dietrich, Marlene
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Einstein, Albert
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Allen, Woody
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Allen, Woody
Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.
Dow, Philip
Death is a debt we all must pay.
Euripides
Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.
Fontaine, Jean de La
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
Proust, Marcel
What is it about death that bothers me so much? Probably the hours.
Allen, Woody
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
McLaughlin, Mignon
There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.
Aeschylus
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
Vinci, Leonardo da
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
Salinger, J. D.
Men die, but does Cloquet die? This question puzzled him, but a few simple line drawings on a pad done by one of the guards set the whole thing clear.
Allen, Woody
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Ertz, Susan
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.
Rigaut, Jacques
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Sophocles
There are worst things than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I mean.
Allen, Woody
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Maher, Bill
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Montagu , Ashley
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
Harris, Robert Alton
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Allen, Woody
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
Einstein, Albert
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Bacon, Francis
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Repetition is the death of art.
Author, Unknown
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Allen, Woody
The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.
Allen, Woody
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Alsop, Stewart
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.
Author, Unknown
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
Shirley, James
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then one day you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
Leary, Denis
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Rowling, J.K.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Whitman, Walt
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Allen, Woody