Death Quotes
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It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.
Evan Esar
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I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.
Anna Kavan
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Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Death is the gate of life.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.
Javier Solana
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Michel Foucault
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To live in God is death; to die in God is life.
Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
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If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
Rabindranath Tagore
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I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Hedy Lamarr
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She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?
Mojo Nixon
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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal
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The probability of death is quite high on the first human mission to Mars.
Elon Musk
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Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
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War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
William Broyles, Jr.
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If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
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If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
Lionel Barrymore
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My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.
Haruki Murakami
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.
James Hunt
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All my books center around death in some way.
Adam Silvera
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
Petrarch
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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne