Quotes for Death

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

Willa Cather

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Paula Poundstone

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Edvard Munch

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

Henry Rollins

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Jesse Jackson

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Leo Buscaglia

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Michael Leunig

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

Mark Twain

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

Corazon Aquino

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

Susan Ertz

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Indira Gandhi

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Pope John XXIII

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Edvard Munch

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Edvard Munch

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Groucho Marx

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.

Roger Moore

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Jose Marti