death quotes

“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.”

— Buddha

“ Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”

— Buddha

“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

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

— Coco Chanel

“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

“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

“The valiant never taste of death but once. ”

— William Shakespeare

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

— William Shakespeare

death quotes

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.”

“If we don't know life, how can we know death?”

“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.”

“ Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”

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

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

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

“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. ”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”

“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. ”

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

“On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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. ”

“An evil life is a kind of death.”

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

“The valiant never taste of death but once. ”

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”