Death Quotes

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Death's in the good-bye.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

I'm not afraid to die.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.