Explore Quotes on Death

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Authority forgets a dying king.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.