Death Quotes

"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life"

Seneca, Philosopher

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"For tis not in mere death that men die most"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way"

Isabelle Eberhardt, Explorer

"Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected""

Julius Caesar, Leader

"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality"

Judy Garland, Actress

"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end"

John Webster, Playwright

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"Debate is the death of conversation"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks"

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

"A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi"

Larry Wall, Author

"Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people"

Tom Baker, Actor

"I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

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