Death Quotes

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

George Orwell

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Stanislav Grof

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

John Green

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

J.K. Rowling

That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.

Benjamin Franklin

Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Thomas Gray

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Carter Burwell

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb.And when the earth shal claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance.

Kahlil Gibran

[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Plato

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!

Heather Mills

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Cornelius Nepos

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Michel de Montaigne

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Michel de Montaigne

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Michel de Montaigne

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Michel de Montaigne

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

Ian Mckellen

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Tryon Edwards