Death Quotes

There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
- Edvard Munch

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
- Madame de Stael

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

Thou art not dead! Thou art the wholeOf life that quickens in the sod.
- Charles Hanson Towne

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
- Herodotus

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik H. Erikson

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
- Attributed to George Carlin