Quotations About Death
Death and dice level all distinction.
Samuel Foote
The Minor
The Minor
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
Essays
Essays
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Georg Büchner
Danton's Death
Danton's Death
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Jean Giraudoux
Amphitryon, 1929
Amphitryon, 1929
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
Giovanni Falcone
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
Donald A. Miller
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
Unknown
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Ingersoll