Death Quotes

You have never talked to a mere mortal.

C.S. Lewis

The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Tennessee Williams

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Paulo Coelho

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

John Donne

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

John Donne

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

John Donne

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Red Auerbach

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Mason Cooley

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Gerhard Kocher

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Rutger Hauer

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

Robert Benchley

His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead deck, his the eyes beyond the flames, his the grin from beyond the grave of the world.

Stephen King

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Stephen King

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Georg Hermes

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

Maurice Sendak