Death Quotes - page 2

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. (William Goldman)
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. View quote
George Carlin
Life is a movie; death is a photograph. View quote
Susan Sontag
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. View quote
James Anthony Froude
The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death. View quote
Julian Simon
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. View quote
W. H. Auden
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. View quote
E. M. Forster
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. View quote
Emil Cioran
People living deeply have no fear of death. (Anaïs Nin)
There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it. View quote
Lily Tomlin
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. View quote
Woody Allen
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. View quote
Brendan Behan
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. View quote
William Cowper
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. View quote
Thomas Mann
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. (Francis Bacon)
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine