Death Quotes
Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.
Homer
In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
Nicole Krauss
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
Lord Byron
See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.
African Spir
Whoever finds me finds life,
And obtains favor from the Lord;
But those who miss me injure themselves;
All who hate me love death.
Bart Ehrman
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.
David Blaine
Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.
Jordan Peele
When you pass from death into the life, you become a new person, and so everything you do flows from that.
Benjamin Watson
To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.
Cleve Jones
So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
Thomas Hobbes
It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
Eric Holder
I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
Ernest Shackleton
We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.
Erwin McManus
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
Ray Comfort
Death is the great leveller.
Claudius Claudianus
The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.
Marcel Proust
