1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik H. Erikson

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
Ernst Moritz Arndt

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
Errol Flynn

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Carter Burwell

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Miguel de Unamuno

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Philip Johnson

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
Giovanni Falcone

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
Anna Akhmatova

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Scott Caan

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt

Death's in the good-bye.
Anne Sexton

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
Juliette Binoche

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Adam Clarke

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
John Greenleaf Whittier

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
Georges Bernanos