Death Quotes

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death'.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity-and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future - and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

If a painless death, leaving behind beautiful progeny, is the sign of a happy natural state, then the endings of the other arts show us the example of just such a happy natural state.

Inactivity is death.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Though after my death you may have many stepdames, yet shall you never have a more natural mother unto you all.

I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.