Death quotes

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Everything that gets born dies.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.