Death Quotes
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There is no more final end than death.
John Thaw -
Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.
Poul Anderson -
For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."
Heraclitus -
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
Saint Augustine -
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die.
William Blake -
I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.
James Wan
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Jose Marti -
This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.
Martin Luther -
'Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt.' - This point in the Gita is my death sentence.
Emil Cioran -
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
Pablo Picasso -
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
William Cowper -
They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
Bruce Jackson
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Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
Edward Joseph Young -
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.
Adrian Rogers -
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather -
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
Blaise Pascal -
If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death, But have belief that every little breath Will stay with you for an eternity.
Al-Maʿarri
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
Petrarch -
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
Miguel de Cervantes -
The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.
Gertrude Bell