Quotes About Death

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

Blue is true, Yellow's jealous, Green's forsaken, Red's brazen, White is love, And black is death.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is the truest valor to dare to live.

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to,' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No, it is better not', he said, 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out ... you always knew when you made a decision against life. ... The door clicked and you were safe inside- safe and dead.

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whisky.

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie.

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

If you want to die happily, learn to live; if you would live happily, learn to die.

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, or live too long.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.