Death Quotes

"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them." ~ Tennessee Williams

"Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to." ~ Sophocles

"Death is not the greatest loss in life, the greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." ~ Norman Cousins

"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die." ~ Robert Cody

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~ Mahatma Ghandi

"There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer." ~ Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros

"Cowards die many times before death

The valient never taste of death but once" ~ William Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar

"Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear

To be we know not what, we know not where." ~ John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews." ~ Katherine Hepburn

"As soon as one is born, one starts dying." ~ Luigi Pirandello, Henry IV

"When do the dead die? When they are forgotten." ~ Laura Esquivel

"Look on the grave where thou must sleep

Thy last, and strongest foe;

It is endurance not to weep, 

if that response seems woe." ~ Emily Bronte, Self-Interrogation

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." ~ Fight Club

"That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop." ~ Edward Albee, Three Tall Women

"Death lies dormant in all of us and will bloom in time." ~ Dean Koontz, Old Thomas

"The living is a passing traveller,

The dead a man come home." ~ Li Bai, The Old Dust