Death Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 2



After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

Death is the poor man’s best physician.
Proverb

Death is the great leveller.
Proverb

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson

The human race is the only one that knows it must die, and it knows this only through its experience. A child brought up alone and transported to a desert island would have no more idea of death than a cat or a plant.
Voltaire

Death doesn’t bargain.
August Strindberg

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you.
Ivan Turgnev

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Amelia Burr

Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
Sydney Smith

Every man dies – Not every man really lives.
William Ross Wallace

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
Gloria Steinem

I do really think that death will be marvellous…If there wasn’t death, I think you couldn’t go on.
Stevie Smith

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
Anonymous

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus

Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin

Death cancels everything but truth.
Proverb

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
Chuck Palahniuk

Any amusing deaths lately?
Maurice Bowra

Death is an acquired trait.
Woody Allen

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
Chuck Palahniuk

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome
Isaac Asimov

I shall have more to say when I am dead.
Edwin Arlington Robinson

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Andrew Young

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

The good die young.
Proverb

The good die young – because they see it’s no use living if you’ve got to be good”
John Barrymore

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