Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Bob DylanIf we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George EliotMust not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
PlatoDeath is a fearful thing.
William ShakespeareFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest HemingwayYou’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.
Billy GrahamIf you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston ChurchillColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob DylanA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous HuxleyLife is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.
Muhammad AliWhy are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody AllenIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EpicurusI’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.
Anne FrankThe essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George OrwellOnly on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry AdamsMillions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.
Christopher HitchensWhen anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy GrahamOur most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
John F. KennedySurrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador DaliDeath is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaShrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl JungBetween us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise PascalIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel JohnsonDeath obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.
J. K. RowlingAs a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
ChanakyaCan a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. LewisWithout health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.
BuddhaMy gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.
Mr. TDying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody AllenWars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan WattsI am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.
Haruki MurakamiHow young can you die of old age?
Steven WrightI don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac AsimovAlas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar WildeNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamIn the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Christopher HitchensPrevious generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry PratchettThere’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina JolieWhen we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
Christopher HitchensLife is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James BaldwinMan the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis BaconIt’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
Terry PratchettI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinMy personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Ray BradburyThe long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CummingsRemembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve JobsDeath is just life’s next big adventure.
J. K. RowlingSometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
Marilyn MonroeIf I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.
Billie EilishThe last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise PascalWar is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.
George OrwellHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James BaldwinOn the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody AllenDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Tennessee WilliamsI joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig van BeethovenI think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.
George H. W. BushSuppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac AsimovWe all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.
Mr. T