Death Quotes

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

Only death can seperate me from the wrestling world.

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.

Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.

Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.

Death's long anabasis.

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.

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.