1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey Newton

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Rush Limbaugh

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Stendhal

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Saul Alinsky

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de Montaigne

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel Butler

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Samuel Butler

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Pope John XXIII

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
Horace

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson