Quotes about Death

“A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.”

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”

“In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.”

“We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.”

“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”

“My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.”

“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”

“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.”

“We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.”

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”

“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.”

“The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.”

“I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.”

“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”

“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”

“Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.”

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.”

“Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.”

“Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.”