Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Death.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt
I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.
Terry Pratchett
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
Muqtada al Sadr
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
George McGovern
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
Tim Kaine
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Miguel de Cervantes
To awake from death is to die in peace.
Douglas Horton
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
Dean Smith
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert M. Hutchins
Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.Italic text
Paulo Coelho
You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
Orson Scott Card
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Marlene Dietrich
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Havelock Ellis