Death Quotes

• 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.

  Stewart Alsop

• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  Francis Bacon

• 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

• I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

  Willa Cather

• I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

  Clarence Darrow

• When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

  Marlene Dietrich

• Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

  Henry Van Dyke

• No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

  Euripides

• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

  Edward W. Howe

• Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

  Elbert Hubbard

• Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

  Helen Keller

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

  Maurice Maeterlinck

• Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

  Bill Maher

• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

• We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

  David Sarnoff

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

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

  Mark Twain

• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

• 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

• 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

  Lord Byron

• 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

• Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

  Erik H. Erikson

• Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

  Susan Ertz

• You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

  Medgar Evers

• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  Kahlil Gibran

• A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Ashley Montagu

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

  Thomas Moore

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

  William Penn

• What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

  Albert Pike

• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

  Alice Walker

• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

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