Quotes About Death

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life, and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?"

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality and should be immediately annulled.

To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

Home they brought her warrior dead.

There are three things a man must do alone. Be born, die, and testify.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

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

And so make life, death and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand. ... Adventure is a state of mind-and spirit. It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Oh! would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now And have a good cry!

Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.