Death - Quotations about Death

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus  

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

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

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)  

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen (Born 1935)  

Death: to stop sinning suddenly.
Anonymous  

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box
Italian Provers

My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.
Chic Murray

I spend money with reckless abandon. Last month I blew $5000 at a reincarnation. I got to thinking, what the hell, you only live once!
Ronnie Shakes

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Andrew Young

The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Mark Twain (New York Journal, June 1897)

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Death Quotes

The man that runs away lives to die another day.
A. E. Housman

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Sam Levenson

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
Jack Benny

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
Proverb

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
Horace

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Nietzsche

Rotten bones are all the same. Who can tell them apart? Make haste to enjoy life while you have it. Why care what happens when you're dead?
Yang Chu

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Delores Ibarruri

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk.
It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau

That the end of life should be death may sound sad; yet what other end can anything have?
George Santayana

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
Anon

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.
Revelation 6:8