Death Quotes

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.
Stewart Alsop

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
Gustave Flaubert

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Philip Johnson

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

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
Errol Flynn

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
Bryant H. McGill

Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Carter Burwell

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Barry Cornwall

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn

Death's in the good-bye.
Anne Sexton