Death Quotes

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

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.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.