Death Quotes

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I will do the best I can.

Anne Bancroft

Of course, for a lot of people, death was a welcome change. Grinding poverty takes the edge off most things, including life.

Tom Baker

The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life.

Henry Mills Alden

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Voltaire

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

Dorothy Stang

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

Peter Taylor Forsyth

Birth and death are events in time and space.... there is nothing but Life.

Betty Kovacs

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Harvey Cushing

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Christian Lous Lange

The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death.

Bergman, Morris

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Bret Harte

Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.

Gerald Durrell