Quotes about death

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

Bertrand Russell

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

B. F. Skinner

I foresee death by culture shock.

Woody Allen

I’ve always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Sylvester Stallone

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man’s than of his own.

Francis Bacon

These have no hope that death will overcome. And so degraded is the life they lead all look with envy on all other fates.

Dante Alighieri

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they’ve heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It’s good to mix it up a little bit.

Ed Sheeran

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Buddha

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Sophocles

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

Walt Whitman