Top 570 Death Quotes

Death is the separation of soul from body.
Chrysippus
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch
I’m not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it’s unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato
When I say, ‘I stand for equal rights,’ I mean equal rights for all persons… from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the ‘contribution’ they make to society.
Abby Johnson
To politicize a man’s tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn’t it?
Tucker Carlson
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of f

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
John Wesley
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
I used to watch ‘Death Becomes Her,’ and I knew I wanted to become Meryl Streep.
Jinkx Monsoon
So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.
Andy Warhol
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
Montgomery Clift
My dad was a loyal congressman until his death. The Congress didn’t respect him after his death and filed cases against me.
Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
Montesquieu
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Jerome Lawrence
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
Philip Massinger
I don’t have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.
Nick Cave
I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.
Ron Kovic
Death does determine life.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
When your are playing for the national championship, it’s not a matter of life or death. It’s more important than that.
Duffy Daugherty
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one’s door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I did nothing to deserve God’s love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God’s family.
Steven Curtis Chapman
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they’re not trying to escape.
Stanley Hauerwas
My father blamed me for my brother Gunther’s death, for not bringing him home. He died in an avalanche as we descended from the summit of Nanga Parbat, one of the 14 peaks over 8,000m, in 1970. Gunther and I did so much together. It was difficult for my father to understand what it was like up there.
Reinhold Messner
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
John Ortberg
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
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
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.
Marie Curie
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
George Meredith
Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Miguel de Cervantes
Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don’t care about life, don’t care about death. Nothing. That’s the kind of man you are dealing with. That’s why I can’t be beaten.
Tyson Fury
'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of s

‘Grace’ is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come – you really just have to stew in your life until it’s time to go. But sometimes, somebody else’s faith in you can do wonders.
Jeff Buckley
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George Carlin
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Unknown
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can’t be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
Sakshi Tanwar
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death’s wing flashed ahead.
Anna Akhmatova
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there’s part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
Amanda Lindhout
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.
Tennessee Williams
After a natural disaster, safe drinking water is a priority. Humans can live longer without food than water, so communication about clean water is essential to help avoid the risk of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, famine, and death.
Tae Yoo
Even though everybody’s lives are different, in general we’re all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That’s always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.
Joan Jett
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr
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
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields
The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.
Nostradamus
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Mary Shelley
Nothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye West
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Kevin Spacey
Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
William Inge
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
Barbara Corcoran
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
Thomas Hobbes
I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Hedy Lamarr
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations – ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies – were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
Tom Robbins
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte
To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
Tom Lehman