Death Quotes and Sayings

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
- Herodotus

Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh.
- Marcus Aurelius

You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.
- Medgar Evers

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill

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

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
- Henry Van Dyke

I shall not die of a cold.  I shall die of having lived.
- Willa Cather

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

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
- Harvey Cushing

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
- J.J. Furnas

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

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther

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

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir

There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn’t get worse every year.
- Author Unknown

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
- Madame de Stael

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.
- Brian Williams

Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep.  Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.
- Philip Dow

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
- Percival Arland Ussher

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