Death Quotes

My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.

You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore.

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

Death smells like birthday cake.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom.

There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.