Death Quotes

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Joseph Stalin

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Carol P. Christ

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Marcus Aurelius

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Jean Cocteau

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Jean Cocteau

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Paulo Coelho

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

Bill Maher

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

Rob Sheffield

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

T. S. Eliot

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Taylor Caldwell

In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Jean de la Bruyere

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

Damien Hirst

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Brigitte Bardot

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Erich Fromm

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith