1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
Henry Miller

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
James Russell Lowell

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
Angus Young

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
Lena Horne

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
Imran Khan

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
Layne Staley

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Henry Miller

Divorce is probably as painful as death.
William Shatner

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
Donald Rumsfeld

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
Jack Nicholson