Death Quotes

"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die"

"I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?"

"The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth"

Elias Canetti, Author

"He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"He who does not fear death cares naught for threats"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"Belief is the death of intelligence"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Each instant of life is a step toward death"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men"

Herodotus, Historian

"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely"

Brian Molko, Musician

"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"People living deeply have no fear of death"

Anais Nin, Author

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings"

Anais Nin, Author

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death"

Anais Nin, Author

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing"

Anais Nin, Author

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