Death Quotes

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

Life, Wise, Short

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

Fear, Someone, Dead

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

Life, Time, Fear

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

Alone, Done, Others

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

Another, Able, Difference

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

Nice, Saying, Letter

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Best

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot

Dead, Until, Forgotten

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

Learning, Live, Thought

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Bill Maher

God, Fire, Quit

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
David Gerrold

Life, Hard, Die

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin

Die, Few, Thousand

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

Honor, Stranger, Land

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Living, Dead

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius

Men, Live, Through

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Birthday, Fear, Last

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard

Die, Stop, Suddenly

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
Gustave Flaubert

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides

Tomorrow, Living

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn

Time, Eternity, Turning

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

Great, Read, Pleasure

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn

Great, Relief, Interviews

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Greatest, Nothing

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Stewart Alsop

Time, Sleep, Die

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