Quotes

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
-Jean Giraudoux

Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught,And spent my little life without a thought,And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim,Should think of me, who never thought of him.
-Rene Francois Regnier

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.
-From the television show Roseanne

Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me.The Carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality
-Emily Dickinson

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

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

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Years, following years, steal something every day;At last they steal us from ourselves away.
-Horace

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.
-Jean de La Fontaine

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

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

There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
-Anonymous Author

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
-Mark Twain

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
-Henry Van Dyke

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

Death is a debt we all must pay.
-Euripides

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

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
-Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
-David Sarnoff

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
-Giovanni Falcone

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

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

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

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
-John Donne

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
-Socrates

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

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

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

All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
-Francis Bacon, Essays

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
-Norman Cousins

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

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

There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.
-Kenneth Patchen

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
-Seneca

In any man who dies there dies with himhis first snow and kiss and fight....Not people die but worlds die in them.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

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