
J. K. Rowling
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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

William Shakespeare
Death is a fearful thing.

Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

William Shakespeare
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

William Shakespeare
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

J. K. Rowling
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

William Shakespeare
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Langston Hughes
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Mark Twain
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

William Shakespeare
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

J. K. Rowling
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

Suzanne Collins
District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

Rumi
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Ian Fleming
You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face

Charles Dickens
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Henry Van Dyke
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

J. K. Rowling
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

David Byrne
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Ben Jonson
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Haruki Murakami
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Sue Monk Kidd
Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

Helen Keller
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

William Shakespeare
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...

Charles Bukowski
Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

Johnny Cash
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Tupac Shakur
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

George Carlin
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Johnny Cash
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.

Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Oscar Wilde
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

C. S. Lewis
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
Johnny Cash
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

James Patterson
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

Aung San Suu Kyi
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
Betty Friedan
All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the post-feminist generation of young women who don't identify with feminism - and then we have the biggest march ever of women in Washington. More people than had ever marched for anything - not only more women, but more people.

W. H. Auden
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

Malcolm X
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

William S. Burroughs
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
Anderson Cooper
The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

Robert Anton Wilson
Belief is the death of intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Steven Spielberg
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

E. E. Cummings
Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Alexandre Dumas
It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

John Wayne
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

Charles Bukowski
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

John Steinbeck
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

Joseph Stalin
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

John Lennon
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

Leonardo da Vinci
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Johnny Depp
I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

Ernest Hemingway
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Virginia Woolf
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Charles Bukowski
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Isabel Allende
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
Johnny Cash
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.

James Weldon Johnson
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

Germaine Greer
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Aphra Behn
Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Margaret Mitchell
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Jeanette Winterson
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

Judy Garland
My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.
Robert F. Kennedy
The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Edgar Allan Poe
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Bill Hicks
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Sun Tzu
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.

Epicurus
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Kurt Cobain
If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Haruki Murakami
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Anne Frank
I wish to go on living even after my death.

Marcus Aurelius
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Jim Morrison
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.

Milan Kundera
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

Elton John
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

Johnny Cash
We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

Hans Christian Andersen
She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

Pablo Neruda
If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

Thomas Mann
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Daisaku Ikeda
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

Milan Kundera
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Irvine Welsh
By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

Woody Allen
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.

John F Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Marilyn Manson
The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Plato
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Joseph Stalin
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Jim Morrison
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us