1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


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

Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.
Bryant H. McGill

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

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

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus

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

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

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams

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

Everything that gets born dies.
Morrie Schwartz

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

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu

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

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