Death Quotes

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Sam Snead

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Jackie Kennedy

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

Bernhard Langer

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Epicurus

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Khalil Gibran

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Stanislav Grof

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Ivan Turgenev

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Helen Keller

...or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard.

John Green

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Albert Einstein

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Dennis Prager

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Ernest Hemingway

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Bodhidharma

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Liam Neeson

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Jerry Garcia

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Joseph Addison

I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.

Margot Kidder