Death Quotes and Sayings

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
- Plato

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
- Mortimer Collins

When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
- Marlene Dietrich

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
- Homer

I want a priest a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman.  I want to hedge my bets.
- Wilson Mizner

Death is a debt we all must pay.
- Euripides

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Every man dies Not every man really lives.
- William Ross Wallace

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

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
- Edward Young

Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up.  I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something.  Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery.  People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap.  Who wants flowers when you’re dead?  Nobody.
- J.D. Salinger

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future.  It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
- Marcel Proust

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.
- Jean de La Fontaine

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

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
- Kahlil Gibran

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
- Thomas Browne

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