Quotes about Death

“People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.”

“We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.”

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

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

“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 don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”

“Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.”

“I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.”

“An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.”

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

“Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.”

“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”

“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”

“The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.”

“I'm not afraid to die.”

“Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”

“The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.”

“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.”

“A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.”

“A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.”

“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.”