Death Quotes

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Joseph Stalin

Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes.

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To fear death is to misunderstand life.

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When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.

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A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.

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We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.

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God's retirement plan is out of this world

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Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others.

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When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.

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It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable.

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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men die, but sorrow never dies;

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, The Crad

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Jeanne Calment

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

I am not the least afraid to die.

Charles Darwin

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Stanislav Grof

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Aldous Huxley