Death Quotes

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

Death is a distant rumor to the young.
- Andrew A. Rooney

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
- Willa Cather

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

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Death is a debt we all must pay.
- Euripides

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
- Euripides

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
- Lord Byron

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
- Percival Arland Ussher