Death

Best Quotes and speeches on Death

1. A man dies only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they’re gone, he’s forgotten, without a trace, as if he’d never even existed. And that’s all.
   – Wolfgang Borchert
2. A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
   ― Percival Arland
3. A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
   ― Thomas Mann
4. All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
   – Maurice Maeterlinck
5. All say, how hard it is, that we have to die — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
   – Mark twain
6. As o’er the stormy sea of human life we sail, until our anchored spirits rest in the far haven of eternity.
   ― Robert Montgomery
7. Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me. The carriage held but just us and immortality.
   ― Emily Dickinson
8. Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
   – Homer
9. Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.
   – J.d. Salinge
10. But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
    – Socrates
11. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
    – William Shakespeare
12. Death does not wait to see if things are done or not done.
    – Kularnava
13. Death ends a life, not a relationship.
    – Mitch Albom
14. Death has got something to be said for it: there’s no need to get out of bed for it.
    ― Kinsley Amis
15. Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
    – Herodotus
16. Death is a distant rumor to the young.
    — Andrew A. Rooney
17. Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
    – Attributed to George Carlin
18. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
    ― Socrates
19. Death never takes the wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.
    ― Jean de la Fontaine
20. Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where.
    ― John Dryden