Death Quotes

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Lew Wallace
- History
- Death
Death and the devil, what are these to him? His being accuses him - and yet his face is firm In resolution, in absolute persistence; The folds of smiling do for steadiness; The face is its own fate - a man does what he must - And the body underneath it says: I am.

Randall Jarrell
- Fate
- Devil
- Persistence

Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.

Allen Tate
- Ground
- Root
- Tomb
She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.

Iain Banks
- She
- Death
- Stupid
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Mario Monicelli
- Age
- Death
- Poverty
At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what's really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we've done things to be successful, we have the formula and can institutionalize it. That can be death.

Mark Parker
- Done
- Death
- Success
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

Tacitus
- Death
There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.

Manning Marable
- Up
- Time
- Good