Death Quotes

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Henry Ward Beecher

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

David Hume

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

Tom Robbins

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Wangari Maathai

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

William Law

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

Sir Walter Raleigh

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

Elizabeth I

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Samuel Johnson

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.

Vespasian

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

Dag Hammarskjold

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Dag Hammarskjold

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Clint Eastwood

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Abdul Kalam

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

Fiona Shaw

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Alex Campbell

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Tecumseh