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Quotes About Death

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.
~ David Levithan
That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?
~ David Levithan
On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.
~ James Lee Burke
What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.
~ Joyce Kilmer
The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Spy
To die hating them, that was freedom
~ George Orwell, 1984
I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.
~ Dasha Zhukova
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
~ Zachary Taylor
Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.
~ Tupac Shakur
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
~ Mary Renault
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
~ Anne Lamott
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
~ Robert Frost
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided.
~ Bible
My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.
~ Norm MacDonald
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
~ J. P. Donleavy
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
~ Henny Youngman
Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
Remember watching "The Day After" when I was young and being afraid of death. I'm not anymore, death is a part of life.
~ Unknown
To be born with a personality is a gift from your parents. But to die as a personality is an achievement of your own.
~ Unknown
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
~ William Butler Yeats
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
~ George Harrison