Death Quotes

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

George Orwell

Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty.

Virginia Woolf

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Mitt Romney

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Jeanne Moreau

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Stephen King

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Isabel Allende

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

John Green

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Eric Cantona

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

Charles Dickens

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Eliot Spitzer

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? Natural death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful.

George Orwell

It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil

Most people would rather die than think: many do.

Bertrand Russell

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike, (attributed)

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Stanislav Grof

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Jeanne Moreau

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

John Ralston Saul

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Leo Buscaglia