Death Quotes

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. -- Amelia Burr
People living deeply have no fear of death. -- Anais Nin
Death? Why this fuss about death. Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! ... Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A man can die but once. -- Proverb
Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him. -- E. M. Forster
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. -- A. Sachs
After all, what is death? Just nature’s way of telling us to slow down. -- Dick Sharples
Death is a punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favour. -- Seneca
Oh well, no matter what happens, there’s always death. -- Napoleon I
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. -- Stewart Alsop
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. -- Francis Bacon
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Death row is a state of mind. -Doris Ann Foster
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death. - Jewish Proverb
He not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan (1941)
I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse. Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991
The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take. Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”
“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.”