Death Quotes - page 4

If you really believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt? (Doug Stanhope)
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
William Hazlitt
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
David Lloyd George
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
James Shirley
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
Primo Levi
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. (Georg Büchner)
Death is the most blessed dream.
Georg Büchner
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Georg Büchner
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Thornton Wilder
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Georges Rouault
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Montesquieu
Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James
No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Zeno of Citium
The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
Cesare Pavese
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.
Nikos Kazantzakis