Quotes about Death

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

"The idea is to die young as late as possible."

"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."

"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."

"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life."

"You'll have time to rest when you're dead."

"Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death."

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

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."

"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."

"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."

"When you're dead, you're dead. That's it."

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

"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."

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

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

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

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."

"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

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

"If we must die, we die defending our rights."

"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."

"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."

"We die only once, and for such a long time."

"Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash."