Death Quotes
Quotes About Death - Famous Death Quotes
"You better enjoy livin' baby, 'cause dying is a pain in the ass"
- Frank Sinatra (1915-1998)(Thanks to starduster for sending the above one in to quotesandsayings.com!)
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
- Bishop Hall
Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed!
- Sir Thomas Browne
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen
Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.
- Dave Barry
Q: Do you know what the death rate around here is?
A: One per person.
-Anonymous
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
- A.E. Newman
If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything.
- Maxwell Smart
He that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
- Shakespeare
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death?
- Shakespeare
And death makes equal the high and low.
- John Heywood
O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared.
- Sir Walter Raleigh
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
- John James Ingalls
Tis after death that we measure men.
- James Barron Hope
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
- A. Sachs
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
- William Mitford
Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
- Walter Scott
To stop sinning suddenly.
- Elbert Hubbard
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
- Mark Twain
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
- Henry Van Dyke
Now comes the mystery.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
- Seneca
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
- Joyce Cary
The gods conceal frm men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
- Lucan
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
- Mark Twain
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
- Old Proverb
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!
- Thomas F. Healey
I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
- Hugh Hamilton
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
- William Penn
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
- Eric Hoffer
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
- William Shakespeare
Most people would rather die than think: many do.
- Bertrand Russell