1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers

Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates