Death Quotes

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson

Story, Meaning, Changed

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

Everything that gets born dies.
Morrie Schwartz

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. Howe

Men, Law, Against

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

Life, Desire, Tis

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams

Time, While, Hospital

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden

Love, Great, Human

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Knowledge, Nothing, Die

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu

Die, Young, Idea

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis

Enemy, Past, Last

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather

Die, Cold, Shall

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik H. Erikson

Life, Fear, Children

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
Ernst Moritz Arndt

Good, Nothing, Dies

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall

Birth, Stands, Grave

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
Errol Flynn

Failure, Left, Dies

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden

Words, Living, Dead

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Carter Burwell

Society, Help, Around

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Miguel de Unamuno

Darkness, Cold, Dies

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Scott Caan

Fight, Dead, Might

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
Giovanni Falcone

Fear, Once, Dies

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Philip Johnson

Live, Beyond, Architects

Death's in the good-bye.
Anne Sexton

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
Anna Akhmatova

Peace, Time, Happy

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Adam Clarke

State, Sin, Glory

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
Juliette Binoche

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