Death Quotes

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death. (Epicurus)
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Death is not the worst that can happen to men. View quote
Plato
The human soul develops up to death. View quote
Hippocrates
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Death is softer by far than tyranny. View quote
Aeschylus
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. View quote
Mark Twain
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. View quote
Joseph Stalin
A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. View quote
Fidel Castro
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. (George Santayana)
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. View quote
Angelina Jolie
The first requisite for immortality is death. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. View quote
John Donne
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. View quote
George Carlin
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. View quote
Iggy Pop
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. View quote
Emil Cioran
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. (Steve Jobs)
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. View quote
Bill Shankly
Our life is made by the death of others. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Love has no age, no limit; and no death. View quote
John Galsworthy
Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt