Quotes about Death

“We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.”

“Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.”

“Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.”

“From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.”

“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”

“Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.”

“God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.”

“Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.”

“Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.”

“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.”

“I don't feel scared about death, I just feel so frustrated and sad to think I won't see how stories end. My children's story. My wife's. The football. All the stories going on in the world that you're going to miss the end of.”

“Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”

“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.”

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

“To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.”

“In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.”

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

“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.”

“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”