Quotes for Death

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Katharine Hepburn

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.

Tecumseh

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

Edvard Munch

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Charlotte Bronte

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer from our sins.

Stanley Hauerwas

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Albert Pike

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Stanislav Grof

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create - in one generation - closing the gap. That's why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real.

Nipsey Hussle

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

William Shakespeare

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Simone de Beauvoir

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Jesse Jackson

Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat.

Munshi Premchand

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Douglas MacArthur

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

Willa Cather