402 Death quotes

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I'm gonna live till I die.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

Inactivity is death.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

In the long run we are all dead.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

A useless life is an early death.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Death is a fearful thing.

The goal of all life is death.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

I'm not afraid to die.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

An unused life is an early death.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented.

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Death is better than slavery.

Grumbling is the death of love.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Everything that gets born dies.

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

'The Descendants' somehow made death and adultery funny at times.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

In every parting there is an image of death.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

To have died once is enough.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.

Nothing separates a woman or a family from God's love. Not death, and certainly not divorce.

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

Death is the cure for all diseases.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

People have not given children enough credit to understand the idea of death. But I really think they do.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Death's in the good-bye.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

We will persevere, come life or death.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.