Quotes about Death

“Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.”

“Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

“The first requisite for immortality is death.”

“I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die, and the only thing we can control is how we are and what we're doing in the meantime.”

“The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.”

“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”

“I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don't ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.”

“The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.”

“If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.”

“The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.”

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.”

“I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.”

“My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.”

“There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.”

“In every parting there is an image of death.”

“Golf is such a wonderful game. I love it to death.”

“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”

“Death is never polite, even when we expect it.”

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

“A useless life is an early death.”

“Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”