Death Quotes

• We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Connection
  • Imagine
  • Advance

• Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Black
  • Star
  • Wind

• Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Facts
  • Explain
  • Vulgarity

• Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Death
  • Bureaucracy

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Different
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Laugh

• You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Turn

• The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Grieve

• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Pride

• What does not kill me makes me stronger.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Death
  • Strong

• I distinguish between maniacs and crazy people; a maniac will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo, but he'll be wearing a Bugs Bunny suit at the time.

  

  George Carlin
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • History
  • Death
  • Grave

• He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • See

• It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Joy
  • Beginning

• In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • May
  • Feeling

• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Love
  • Sleep

• We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Birth
  • Sickness

• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Death
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appeared. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Children
  • Arrest
  • Collapses

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Liberty

• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Death
  • Raven

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