Quotes on Death

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!

Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!

What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

For now they kill me with a living death.

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.