[ death Quotes ]
244 Quotations
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
[ Death and Dying ]
Johnny Carson
12 votes
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
[ Remedies ]
Miguel De Cervantes
10 votes
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
[ Courage ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
16 votes
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
[ Death and Dying ]
Jean Cocteau
7 votes
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
[ Fate ]
Confucius
13 votes
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
[ Imagination ]
Barry Cornwall
4 votes
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
[ Absence ]
William Cowper
10 votes
Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
[ Acting and Actors ]
John Cusack
5 votes
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
[ Death and Dying ]
Leonardo Da Vinci
14 votes
Our life is made by the death of others.
[ Life and Living ]
Leonardo Da Vinci
8 votes
The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Frank Dane
8 votes
Death doesn't frighten me.
[ Death and Dying ]
Princess of Wales Diana
4 votes
Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
[ Death and Dying ]
John Dryden
10 votes
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
[ Immortality ]
Bob Dylan
6 votes
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
[ Sin ]
Mary Baker Eddy
8 votes
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
[ Pleasure ]
Albert Einstein
8 votes
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
[ Death and Dying ]
George Eliot
3 votes
Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
[ Life and Living ]
T. S. Eliot
5 votes
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
[ Death and Dying ]
Alice Thomas Ellis
4 votes
Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
[ Pain ]
Havelock Ellis
10 votes
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
[ Hair ]
English Proverb
17 votes
For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
[ Fear ]
Epictetus
21 votes
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
[ Life and Living ]
Charles Feidelson
10 votes
It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
[ Death and Dying ]
Henry Fielding
6 votes
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
[ Death and Dying ]
Henry Fielding
7 votes
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
[ Certainty ]
Benjamin Franklin
19 votes
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
[ Certainty ]
Benjamin Franklin
8 votes
He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering.
[ Gifts ]
French Proverb
17 votes
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
[ Death and Dying ]
Charles Frohman
7 votes
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
[ Medicine ]
Sir Samuel Garth
8 votes
An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
[ Unemployment ]
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
5 votes
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
[ Death and Dying ]
Gary Mark Gilmore
3 votes
A useless life is an early death.
[ Death and Dying ]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
4 votes
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
[ Death and Dying ]
Graham Greene
27 votes