Death Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 4



Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.
Luigi Pirandello

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

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
Francis Bacon

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus

Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?
EURIPIDES

I’ll make death love me; for I will contend
Even with his pestilent scythe.
William Shakespeare

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.
Elias Canetti

Death is the privilege of human nature,
And life without it were not worth our taking.
Nicholas Rowe

Its visits, Like those of angels, short, and far between.
Robert Blair

You mean what everybody means nowadays… Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma.
Aldous Huxley

One dies only once, and it’s for such a long time!
Molière

The old man has his death before his eyes; the young man behind his back.
Proverb

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
Ivan Turgenev

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
Mary Baker Eddy

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.
Paramhansa Yogananda

It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon

There is…no death…There is only…me…me…who is going to die…
Andre Malraux

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Antonin Artaud

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Socrates

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over… Death is not anything… death is not… It’s the absence of presence, nothing more… the endless time of never coming back… a gap you can’t see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound…
Tom Stoppard

Whom the gods love dies young.
Menander

To die will be an awfully big adventure.
J. M. Barrie

For death begins with life’s first breath And life begins at touch of death.
John Oxenham

I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

Dying
is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I’ve a call.
Sylvia Plath

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

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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