Quotes about Death

“The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”

“No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”

“The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.”

“Birth was the death of him.”

“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”

“Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.”

“We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.”

“No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.”

“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.”

“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.”

“To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.”

“As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.”

“When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.”

“There is no death. The body withers but the spirit still lives.”

“Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.”

“Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.”

“My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.”

“Death is just life's next big adventure.”

“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”

“I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.”