Death quotes

“The valiant never taste of death but once.” William Shakespeare

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.” William Shakespeare

“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.” Jean de La Fontaine

“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.” Dennis Quaid

“Death is just life's next big adventure.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.” Kurt Cobain

“Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.” Julius Caesar

“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” Julius Caesar

“Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".” Julius Caesar

“It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?” Jim Carrey

“There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.” Hillary Clinton

“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.” Bob Dylan

“Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.” Bob Dylan

“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.” Clint Eastwood

“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” Edgar Allan Poe

“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” Edgar Allan Poe

“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.” Edgar Allan Poe

“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

“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” George Carlin

“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.” George Carlin

“At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.” George Carlin

“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” Ernest Hemingway

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.” Ernest Hemingway

“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” Ernest Hemingway