Death Quotes - Page 6

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

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

There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

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.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.