1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

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

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

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

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

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Henry Ward Beecher

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Billy Graham

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

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

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus

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

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

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo Coelho

Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen