Death Sayings & Quotes
These death sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.' [Life's Little Instruction Book] - Jackson Brown
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shoulds't not grieve. - Bhagavad Gita
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the instalment plan. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I cannot overemphasize the importance of good grammar. What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: 'Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America,' or 'Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.' - Dave Barry
I do not insult Marko. I pay him the tribute of speaking of him and feeling about him precisely as I did when he lived; the insult would be to smear his corpse with the honey excreted by my fear of death. [The Black Mountain, 1954] - Rex Stout
When I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me. - Katherine Mansfield
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. - Carl Sagan
Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. [Minority Report] - Henry Louis Mencken
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. - Samuel Johnson
Your body must become familiar with its death, in all its possible forms and degrees, as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. - Dag Hammarskjold
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest the heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. - William Shakespeare
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. - Mark Twain
Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear, that another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and that other men be ready to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine guns and new battle cries of war and victory. - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. - Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds. - John Greenleaf Whittier
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. - Omar Bradley
Death hath so many doors to let out life. - Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us? - William Shakespeare
Between the business of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed. - George Herbert
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. - Ernest Hemingway
A fair death honours the whole life. - George Herbert