Death Quotes

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

To die at the command of another is to die twice.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

They live ill who expect to live always.

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

Everybody loses the thing that made them.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

I don't want to hear about my death.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

An evil life is a kind of death.

It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don’t teach you a thing about death. There’s no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.