Death Quotes

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

~ Steve Vai

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

~ Marcus Aurelius

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

~ Charles Mackay

Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.

~ Pete Hegseth

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

~ Alexander Smith

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

~ William Blake

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

~ Steven Wright

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.

~ Claude Vorilhon

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

~ John Bacon

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

~ Bear Grylls

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

~ Abu Bakr

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

~ Samuel Johnson

The sole equality on earth is death.

~ Philip James Bailey

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

~ Anthony Mann

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

~ Michael Collins

Belief is the death of intelligence.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

~ Thomas Francis Meagher

Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.

~ Travis Bradberry

The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.

~ Antony Beevor

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

~ Martin Filler

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

~ Germaine Greer

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

~ William C. Bryant

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.

~ Lew Wallace

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

~ G. Gordon Liddy

In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

~ Sabine Baring-Gould

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

~ Eydie Gorme

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

~ Deepak Chopra

Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.

~ Michael Leunig

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

~ Steven Pinker

People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.

~ Paul Kalanithi

As an artist, you're thankful to get a shot at a story more than once, because it doesn't happen all the time. Whether you talk about 'Hamlet' or 'Death of a Salesman,' you always want to see what the next group of actors will do.

~ Kenny Leon

There is but One God. His name is Truth He is the Creator. He fears none he is without hate. He never dies He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now.

~ Guru Nanak

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

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

~ Harold Kushner

I was on a starvation diet to look like I was near death in a film... but I went at it with a plan, and I had a guide; a nutritionist kind of helped me with it.

~ Anne Hathaway

Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

~ Paul Tudor Jones

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

~ Russell M. Nelson

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

~ Jack Kevorkian

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger.

~ Robert Englund