Death Quotes

My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

And die with decency.

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

I trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares me to death.

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.

Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

Give death a better name or die trying.

Saudi Arabian police arrested seven teenage boys for leering at women. In accordance with Saudi law, the boys will be whipped and the women will be stoned to death.

He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.

Death strips all men of dignity.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

It was autumn, the springtime of death.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

Definition is the death of discovery.

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.

Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.