Death Quotes

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.