Death Quotes

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Dr. Martin Luther

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

Clarence Darrow

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.

Stone Temple Pilot

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Margaret Mitchell

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

What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.

Brigham Young

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Benjamin Franklin

For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance.

Kahlil Gibran

Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.

Benjamin Franklin

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Kahlil Gibran

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

Kahlil Gibran

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Kahlil Gibran

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat we say we have had our day

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Willa Cather

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt