Death Quotes

Life and death are like two aspects of a coin, one is incomplete without another. We all know that death is a truth and everyone has to come across it sooner or later. However, whenever we experience death of our loved ones, be it friends or family members, it brings grief or woe and we feel that it is useless to live. We hope that you will find some words of peace and insight in the death quotes provided below. Go ahead and share these quotations and saying with others, especially those who are in need of peace, serenity and wisdom.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal after wards.
Blood Patriotism Peace Country
Theodore Roosevelt

0

0

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Freedom
Nelson Mandela

0

0

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

0

0

My most defining moment was the death of my mother.
Mothers
Kimberly Guilfoyle

0

0

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
Rest
Anne Boleyn

0

0

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Life
Michael Sheen

0

0

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
Life Fear
David Blaine

1

0

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Right Liberty Mind
Harriet Tubman

0

0

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Life
Mel Brooks

0

0

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot

0

0

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Love Life
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

0

0

Death is the cure for all diseases.
Opinion Truth Disease & Sickness
Sir Thomas Browne

0

0

Nothing in life is promised except death.
Life Nothing
Kanye West

0

0

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Tragedy
Joseph Stalin

0

0

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Love Fear
Julius Caesar

0

0

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

1

0

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges

0

0

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus

0

0

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Dreams Lonliness Beauty
Wallace Stevens

0

0

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
Theodore Roosevelt

0

0

We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.
Life Love America Comparisons
Osama bin Laden

0

0

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
Things Fear
Margot Robbie

0

0

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Heart Smile Love
Leonardo da Vinci

0

0

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.
Kevin Bacon

0

0

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
Culture World
Kevin Smith

0

0

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Security
Epicurus

0

0

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Men Animals
Sir Thomas Browne

0

0

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Time Imagination Dreams
Judy Garland

0

0

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Battles Surprise
Che Guevara

0

0

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
Time
Viggo Mortensen

0

0

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison

0

0

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski

0

0

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Greatness Life
Vladimir Nabokov

0

0

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Delivery
George Santayana

0

0

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
Observation Opinion Taste Thinking
George Carlin

0

0

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
Tragedy
Joseph Stalin

0

0

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
Life Love
Ed Sheeran

0

0

I spent quite a lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror. Nearby, there was a stack of books. My favorites were 'The Death of Manolete' and the cartoons of Charles Addams. I would pretend to be Morticia Addams. I was drawn to her. I used to pull my eyes back and see how I'd look with slanted eyelids.
Time Eyes Mirror
Anjelica Huston

0

0

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann

0

0

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Life Spirit Eyes Feelings
Thomas Merton

0

0

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
Family Inspiration Advice Fear
Patrick Jake O'Rourke

0

0

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
Meaningful Men Disgrace Defeat
John Greenleaf Whittier

0

0

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Law
Edgar Watson Howe

0

0

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Fear
Tupac Shakur

1

0

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
Love Music Hatred
Johnny Cash

0

0

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Wisdom Dreams
Jim Carrey

0

0

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Paul McCartney

0

0

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.
Heart
Finn Wittrock

0

0

I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you're going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you're not going to live that long.
Life
Gale Sayers

0

0

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
Life Fear
Steven Seagal

1

0

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Culpability
Coco Chanel

0

0

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Bill Maher

1

0

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
Life
William S. Burroughs

0

0

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Life Comparisons Soul
Sir Thomas Browne

0

0

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.
Bill Paxton

0

0

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Courage
John Wayne

0

0

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Fear
Marcus Aurelius

1

0

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Life People
Anais Nin

0

0

Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm

0

0

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Absence Opinion Problems Suffering
Theodore Roosevelt

1

0

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Taste
William Shakespeare

1

0

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
Time
Jack Nicholson

0

0

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.
Life Opinion Unpleasantness Disgrace
Osama bin Laden

1

0

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
Friendship
Liza Minnelli

0

0

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Life
Morgan Freeman

0

0

There are always those 'Gossip Girl' walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.
Life Walking
Chace Crawford

0

0

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
God Happiness
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

0

0

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.
People Wonder
Dolores O'Riordan

0

0

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
Val Kilmer

0

0

In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

0

0

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
Alpha & Omega
John Milton

0

0

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Greatness Life Love
Hermann Hesse

0

0

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Life People Mankind Wish
Thomas Mann

0

0

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
Problems
Joseph Stalin

1

0

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
Time Rest
Robert De Niro

0

0

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Light
Rabindranath Tagore

0

0

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Trust Mind
Anthony Hopkins

0

0

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

1

0

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Life
Isaac Asimov

0

0

My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.
Fear
Larry King

1

0

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Power Penalty / Chastisement Reason Conviction
Saint Thomas Aquinas

0

0

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Love
Anais Nin

0

0

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

1

0

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Victory Humanity
Horace Mann

0

0

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Statistics Victory
Hillaire Belloc

0

0

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
America Sacrifice Courage Fighting
Osama bin Laden

0

0

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
Tucker Carlson

0

0

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Success
Kevin Spacey

0

0

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Life Wisdom
J. R. R. Tolkien

0

0

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
Television
Giancarlo Esposito

0

0

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
People
Steve King

0

0

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Life Compassion Sun
Hillaire Belloc

0

0

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
Paradox Parties Disease Tactfulness
George Carlin

0

0

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Hatred
Elizabeth I

0

0

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
Desire Fear
Andrew Cuomo

0

0

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.
Nothing Poetry
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

0

0

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Peace Hope
Anne Frank

0

0

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Troubles
Aristotle

0

0

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Pain Benefit Suffering Usefulness
Salvador Dali

0

0

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
Christianity Easter Life Admiration
Soren Kierkegaard

0

0