Death Quotations

Alice Walker

Life is better than death, I believe, if only...

Arthur Schopenhauer

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece...

Ashley Montagu

The idea is to die young as late as...

Bill Maher

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't...

Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death...

Clarence Darrow

I have never killed a man, but I have...

David Sarnoff

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears....

Edvard Munch

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I...

Edward W. Howe

Some men are alive simply because it is against...

Die, v.: To stop sinning...

It is possible to provide security against other ills,...

Erik H. Erikson

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders...

No one can confidently say that he will still...

Men fear death as children fear to go in...

Death is no more than passing from one room...

Some people are so afraid do die that they...

John Muir

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the...

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am become death, the destroyer of...

Kahlil Gibran

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor...

Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to...

Lord Byron

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The day which we fear as our last is...

Mark Twain

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a...

Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of...

Marlene Dietrich

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who won't die for something is not...

Matthew Lesko

We all have to stand by our life's work...

Maurice Maeterlinck

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a...

Medgar Evers

You can kill a man but you can't kill...

Robert Alton Harris

You can be a king or a street sweeper,...

Samuel Butler

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that...

Stewart Alsop

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy...

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to...

Tennessee Williams

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of...

Thomas Mann

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than...

Willa Cather

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

William Penn

For death is no more than a turning of...

W. Somerset Maugham

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my...