Death Quotes

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.