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Death Quotes


I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

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.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

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

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

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

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.