Death Quotes

Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming.

Virgil

I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.

Virgil

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Laura Palmer

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Lord Palmerston

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

George Bernard Shaw

I want to be all used up when I die.

George Bernard Shaw

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

E. M. Forster

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Eugene Ionesco

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.

R. A. Torrey

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Damien Hirst

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

Debra Winger

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Billy Corgan

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Marquis de Sade

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

Floyd Patterson

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Proverb

We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

Proverb

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

William Mitford

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Keith Richards