Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
--A. Sachs
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
--Winston Churchill
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
--William Mitford
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
--Henry Van
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
--Joyce Cary
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
--Lucan
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
--Thomas F. Healey
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
--W. Somerset Maugham
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
--William Penn
Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.
--Emauel Swedenborg (1758)
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
--Bertrand Russell
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
--William Shakespeare
The play is the tragedy "Man"
And its hero the conqueror, Worm.
--Edgar Allen Poe
How oft when they were at the point of death
Have men been merry!
--Shakespeare
But I will be
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed
--Shakespeare
The rest is silence.
--Shakespeare
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
--Psalms 23:4
Dear beauteous death! the jewl of the just/shinig no where, but in the dark.
--Henry Vaughan
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
A sweet and noble thing it is to die for one's country.
--Horace
...silence sounds no worse than tears, after death has stopped the ears.
--A.E. Housman
Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.
--John Masefield
And come he slow or come he fast, it is but Death who comes at last.
--Sir Walter Scott
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
--Thomas Gray
Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.
--Socrates
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
--Agatha Christie
Better to die a thousand deaths than wound my honor.
--Joseph Addison
I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."
--Maya Angelou
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
--Francis Bacon
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
--1 Corinthians 55
To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven;
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck that which is planted.
--Ecclesiastes 3:1
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
--Genesis 3:19
I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.
--Revelations 6:8
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; Neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
--Revelation 7:16
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life
--Book of Common Prayer "The Burial of the Dead" (1662)
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
--Dion Boucicault
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
--Julie Burchill
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.
--Winston Churchill
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
--Jean Cocteau
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
--Charles Caleb Colton "The Lacon" (1829)
Our life is made by the death of others.
--Leonardo da Vinci
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
--Antoine de Saint Éxupéry
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice, in the highest extreme.
--Daniel Defoe
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
--Tryon Edwards
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
--Epicurus
What greater pain could mortals have than this:
To see their children dead before their eyes?
--Euripedes
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
--Giovanni Falcone
Death is an eternal sleep.
--Joseph Fouché
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
--Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
--Dag Hammarskjold
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
--Jimi Hendrix
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
--Hermann Hesse
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.
--Adolf Hitler
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
--Immanuel Kant
If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
--Martin Luther King
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
--Charles Mackay
...it is only death which is hopeless.
--Maria McIntosh
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
--H. L. Mencken
But what is all this fear of and opposition to oblivion? What is the matter with the soft darkness, the dreamless sleep?
--James Thurber
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
--William Mitford
The dead have nothing except the memory they’ve left.
--Ferenc Molnár
A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
--Mother Teresa
Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you, and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
--Mother Theresa
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
--Edvard Munch
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
--Anais Nin
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
--William Penn "Some Fruits of Solitude"
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
--Pope John Paul II
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.
--Francis Quarles
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
--Ronald Reagan
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
--Jean Rostand
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
--Voltaire
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
--Percival Arland Ussher
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
--A. Sachs
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.
--Socrates
Love makes us poets and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
--George Santayana
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness, of a belief.
--Arthur Schnitzler
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; . . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
Men have died from time to time, and the worms have eaten 'em, but not for love.
--William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste death but once.
Of all the wonders that I have yet heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it come.
--William Shakespeare
Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.
--William Shakespeare
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
--William Shakespeare
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
--William Shakespeare
All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
--William Shakespeare
... To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there 's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there 's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life ...
--William Shakespeare
Ay, but to die and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstrution and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods or to reside
In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice;
To be impison'd in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendant world.
--William Shakespeare
O comfort-killing night, image of hell,
Dim register and notary of shame,
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell,
Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
--William Shakespeare
He that dies, pays all debts.
--William Shakespeare
When he shall die
Take him and cut him in little stars
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
--William Shakespeare
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
--George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
--George Bernard Shaw
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
--George Bernard Shaw
There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
--Agnes Smedley
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
--Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1898)
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
--Leonardo da Vinci