Death quotes

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

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.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.