– Death Proverbs –
Each man’s death is fated from the beginning of time.
~ Frank Yerby
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
~ Seneca
We die before we have learned to live.
~ Stephen Winstein
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
~ Isaac Asimov
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
~ Charles Frohman
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
~ Andrew Jackson
You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.
~ Medgar Evers
There is a remedy for everything but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
~ Cervantes
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.
~ Edna O’Brien
We die only once, and for such a long time.
~ Moliere
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
~ Henry Van Dyke
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It’s astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.
~ Yiddish Saying
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
~ Mark Twain
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
~ Tacrus
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen’ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!
~ Seneca
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
~ Ashley Montagu
Death is a debt we all must pay.
~ Euripides
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
~ Tennessee Williams
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
~ Publilius Syrus
‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
~ Lord Byron
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
~ Buddha
Death is an angel with two faces; to us he turns a face of terror, blighting all things fair; the other burns with glory of the stars, ad love is there.
~ T. C. Williams
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
~ Samuel Butler
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
~ David Sarnoff
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
~ David Sarnoff
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
~ Plato
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose peace and whose refuge are for us all. The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
~ Mark Twain
Death and taxes are certain, but death isn’t an annual event.
~ Unknown Author
After the first death, there is no other.
~ Dylan Thomas
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~ Albert Pike
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, “You can’t fire me – I quit.”
~ Bill Maher
Death helps us to see what is worth trusting and loving and what is a waste of time.
~ J. Neville Ward
When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Death is a law, not a punishment.
~ Jean Baptiste Dubos
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
~ Freya Stark
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
~ Woody Allen
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
~ Woody Allen
A good death does honour to a whole life.
~ Petrarch
It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.
~ Woody Allen
When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.
~ Unknown Author
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
~ Woody Allen
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
~ Jean Paul
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
~ Lord Byron
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
~ William Mitford
Of course you don’t die. Nobody dies. Death doesn’t exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
~ Henry Miller
