Death Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 5



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

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend – provided, of course, that he really is dead.
Voltaire

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

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest Hemingway

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
Bernard de Fontenelle

The thought of death came and stayed with her and lent her a sort of drowsy cheer. It would be nice, nice and restful, to be dead.
Dorothy Parker

Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away.
Anonymous

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht

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

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Anonymous

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather… Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
Will Shriner

Death…a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
Charles Caleb Colton

Ever since dying came into fashion, life hasn’t been safe.
Proverb

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Proverb

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
Anonymous

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Che Guavara

Cause I swear that I’m dying, slowly but its happening.
Conor Oberst

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

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
Epicurus

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw

LIfe? LIfe? It’s Death that makes life worth living for.
Aaron Howard

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
Robert Cody

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Ouida

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