Death quotes

A man is not completely born until he is dead. - Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal. - Benjamin Franklin

If man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tommorow. - Eric Hoffer

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. - Erich Fromm

It is as natural to die as to be born. - Francis Bacon

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. - Gloria Steinem

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. - J. Robert Oppenheimer upon witnessing the explosion of the first atomic bomb

Because we don’t know when we will die we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it. Perhaps four or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise, perhaps twenty and yet it all seems limitless. - Paul Bowles, often attributed to Brandon Lee

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance. - Rudolph W. Giuliani

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. - Samuel Butler

Every man dies, not every man really lives. - William Wallace - Braveheart