Death / Immortality Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

234 Death / Immortality Quotes
“Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...”
Longfellow Quotes
“Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.”
Steven Wright Quotes
“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”
Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
“The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.”
Denis Diderot Quotes
“Poverty is the worst form of death.”
Hazrat Ali Quotes
“Death is near and our mutual company is short.”
Hazrat Ali Quotes
“There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.”
Henry W. Longfellow Quotes
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.”
Anais Nin Quotes
“Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”
Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.”
Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes
“Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.”
E. M. Cioran Quotes
“If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.”
Jerry Lee Lewis Quotes
“It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.”
Dave Barry Quotes
“Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.”
Nathan Hale Quotes
“A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.”
Thomas Mann Quotes
“In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?”
Hazrat Ali Quotes
“Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. (2:29).”
Luke Quotes
“For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.”
John Oxenham Quotes
“Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.”
Thomas Wolfe Quotes
“Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?.”
Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
“Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.”
Gary Mark Gilmore Quotes
“Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.”
Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
Horace Mann Quotes