Quotes about Death

“I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?”

“Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment of things you had previously thought were fine.”

“Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.”

“Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.”

“As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.”

“In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.”

“Death is a distant rumor to the young.”

“The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.”

“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”

“At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.”

“The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

“I'll sleep when I'm dead.”

“Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.”

“Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.”

“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”

“Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.”

“I'm a standup comedian who can't drive. I have never learned. I don't trust my hand-eye coordination. You're looking at someone who once dropped a cricket ball on to his own head during a routine catching practice; I don't think it's a great idea to have me in control of a high-speed metal death robot.”

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”

“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

“The dread of criticism is the death of genius.”