Death Quotes

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

In the cicada's cry no sign can foretell how soon it must die.

Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.

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

Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.

It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; the flower that once has bloomed forever dies.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I would rather die standing than live on my knees.

They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

Since ancient times, who has not died? Let my loyal heart shine in the annals of history.

Thousands of desires, each worth dying for; many of them I have realized, yet never enough.

Kill me, O my faithful friends, for in my death is my life.

Until the day I die, I long to look up at the heavens without a speck of shame.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

What perishes is time; we are eternal.

Like a silkworm weaving her house with love from her marrow, and dying in her body's threads.

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

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

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

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

It is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you.

He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.

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

Strength is life, weakness is death.