Death Quotes

“Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.”

— Gus Van Sant

“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.”

— George Eliot

“The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.”

— Bear Grylls

“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.”

— Germaine Greer

“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.”

— Bear Grylls

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

— David Byrne

“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.”

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

“Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.”

— Tennessee Williams

“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”

— Blaise Pascal

“After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.”

— Jaron Lanier

“We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.”

— Doug Coupland

“Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.”

— Christy Turlington

“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

— Plato