1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Stewart Alsop

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
Annie Lennox

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Marlene Dietrich

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr