Death Quotes

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

For now they kill me with a living death.

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

Aging and death is what happens to everybody.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

No more let life divide what death can join together.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

God is dead and I am his replacement.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

Death is the reward for living

No mother should lose her child.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

There are women whose love only ends with death.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)