Death Quotes

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

Great, Relief, Interviews

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel

Life, Remember, Again

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Become, Worlds, Destroyer

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Graduation, Children, Die

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Strength, Silence

Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm

Before, Born, Dies

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch

Body, Grow, Flowers

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Marlene Dietrich

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot

Different, Thought, Seen

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing, Advice, Affair

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel

Before, Actually, Dies

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

Sunday, Long, Rainy

Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus

Happy, Dead, Call

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht

Life, Fear, Rather

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr

Evil, Done, Him

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
Bryant H. McGill

Two, Between, Move

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke

Live, Die, Afraid

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

Life, Boring, Less

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler

May, Die, Everyone

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace

Poor, Kings, Gate

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

Men, Fear, Children

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau

Since, Walk, Toward

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Justice, Living, Cannot

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