Quotes About Death

The goal of all life is death.

If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

He that dies pays all debts

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

I answer the heroic question Death, where is they sting? with It is here in my heart and mind and memories.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

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

Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death