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Quotes About Death

No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.
~ George Vecsey
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
~ Ron Paul
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
~ William Jay
Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.
~ Joe Morton
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
~ David Attenborough
I always mention stacking the dishwasher - any opportunity. But it's the consequences - it's the food poisoning and the potential death that will come with not loading the dishwasher properly.
~ Jon Richardson
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
~ Harold Bloom
False prophets like Joe Biden have asked us to sacrifice our lives so that they might deliver us from death.
~ Will Cain
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
~ Mitch Albom
I'm proud to cosponsor the Life at Conception Act which grants rights to babies at the moment they are conceived, and the Born Alive Protection Act, that will protect innocent lives who miraculously escape death.
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
~ Pope John XXIII
Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control.
~ Claire Wineland
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
~ Steven Biko
I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you're going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you're not going to live that long.
~ Gale Sayers
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.
~ Euripides
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
~ Euripides
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?
~ Euripides
Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.
~ Euripides
Why long for death's marriage bed which human beings all shun? Death comes soon enough and brings an end to everything.
~ Euripides
Death will be my wedding, children and glory.
~ Euripides
Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.
~ Euripides
Death cannot be what Life is, Child; the cup Of Death is empty, and Life hath always hope.
~ Euripides
One who is about to die is really dead already and being so, exist no longer
~ Euripides
You gave birth to your own death.
~ Euripides