Death Quotes

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

Now flip, flop, and fly, I don't care if I die.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

As long as there is death, there is hope

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.

Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the color’s white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down.

Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.

Ill never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.