Death Quotes
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
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Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry.
Sigmund Freud
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You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.
David Gemmell
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To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.
William Shakespeare
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For now they kill me with a living death.
William Shakespeare
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And make death proud to take us.
Cleopatra
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Political elections are not life and death.
Rita Mae Brown
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I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.
Ariel Pink
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On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
Scott Turow
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Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.
Antoine Bechamp
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Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.
Homer
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I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.
Douglas Tompkins
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After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.
Annie Oakley
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As Cæsar was at supper the discourse was of death,-which sort was the best. 'That,' said he, 'which is unexpected.'
Plutarch
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And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. Gravels her voice. Warlocks are enemies of God!! Back to normal screech. And I don't care what kind of hero they are, they're an enemy of God. And had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter woulda been put to death! Applause. You don't make heroes out of warlocks. This is the generation that's gonna stand for purity, an' righteousnesss, an' holiness, an' you're gonna serve the lord all the days of your life.
Becky Fischer
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That's one of the reasons I'm vegan. Death terrifies me. I don't want to impose death on anyone else.
Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
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There was a moment's silence;and then to her bewilderment, Christopher suddenly went into one of his wild gusts of laughter. "F-f-fifty shillings?" he gasped " Oh Kate! Here I am the king at his death time , and you won't even let me spen fifty shillings!
Elizabeth Marie Pope
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I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.
Sandra Cisneros
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When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
N. T. Wright
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Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
Philip James Bailey
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It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.
Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
Hippocrates
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Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
Plato
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
Anthony Trollope