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Quotes About Death

Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last; Who was and is; who liveth and was dead; Beyond the reach of death He now has pass 'd, Of the one glorious Church the glorious Head.
~ Horatius Bonar
You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.
~ Art Carney
A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
~ Arthur Miller
Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.
~ George R. R. Martin
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.
~ Richelle Mead
Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.
~ Sara Gruen
For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
~ Edmund Spenser
The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.
~ Philippe Sollers
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
~ John Aubrey
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.
~ John Donne
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
~ Plautus
The leading cause of death is birth.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
~ David Berg
Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
~ Abdallah II
I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.
~ Karen Russell
Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.
~ Jane Chen
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
~ Seneca the Younger
Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald