Death Quotes

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Tecumseh

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walker

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

David Ortiz

Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

Bell Hooks

When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Morihei Ueshiba

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Laurence Sterne

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

Rick Perry

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

Stanislav Grof

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Alexei Sayle

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Elizabeth I

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Johnny Cash

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Emily Bronte

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Hermann Broch

I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

Norman Parkinson

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Virginia Woolf

Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.

Sir Walter Scott

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott