Quotes About Death

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.

Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."

We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!

It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

The dreadful dead of dark midnight.

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave.

Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing, did certain persons die before they sing.

The number-one fear in life is public speaking, and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy.

There is no armour against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings.

Perfectionism is slow death.

The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die.