1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


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

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

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

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

When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton

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

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

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

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

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
Guru Nanak

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Hedy Lamarr

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