DEATH - QUOTES

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun. --Bishop Hall

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world. --Wittgenstein

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, "Did you bring joy?" The second was, "Did you find joy?" --Leo Buscaglia

I only remember two kisses - the first and the last. The first, with my love and the last, with death. The first brought happiness and the last relief! --Srijit Prabhakaran

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not --Robert G. Ingersoll

Nothing is certain but death and taxes. Of the two, taxes happen annually. --Joel Fox

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death. --Betty Bender

Death Valley is neither dead nor a valley. --Jerry Bunin

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.--Isaac Asimov

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. --Gloria Steinem

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

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. --Robert Bolt

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat we say we have had our day --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. --Kahlil Gibran

Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal. --Benjamin Franklin

What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body. --Brigham Young

Is death the last sleep? No--it is the last and final awakening. --Sir Walter Scott

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life. --Charles Frohman

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

Life is eternal and love is immortal; And death is only a horizon, And a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. --Rossiter W. Raymond

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. --The Buddha

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. --Margaret Mitchell

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. --Dr. Martin Luther King

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

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. --Unknown

Death ends a life, not a relationship. --Jack Lemmon

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic --Joseph Stalin

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. --Unknown

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.--Unknown

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. --Angelina Jolie

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release --John M. Wilson

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. --Unknown

There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. --Unknown

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

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

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. --Rabindranath Tagore

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth--that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. --Socrates

If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise! --Clarence W. Hall

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

Death is well understood,it's life that isn't. --Tony Follari, Comedian