Death quotes

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” Buddha

“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.” Stephen Hawking

“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.” Horace

“Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.” Horace

“ He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.” Horace

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

“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good” Plato

“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?” Plato

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.” Coco Chanel

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.” Aristotle

“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.” Stendhal

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.” Honore de Balzac

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.” Aldous Huxley

“To some extent I liken slavery to death.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” Lord Byron

“On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.” Sophocles

“Not even old age knows how to love death.” Sophocles

“For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.” Sophocles

“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” Victor Hugo

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Julius Robert Oppenheimer

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.” Ovid

“An evil life is a kind of death.” Ovid

“Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.” Ovid

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” William Shakespeare

“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.” William Shakespeare

“Death is a fearful thing.” William Shakespeare