Top 484 Death Quotes

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Abu Bakr

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

Annie Besant

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Alison Gopnik

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Aldous Huxley

I'm working myself to death.

I'm working myself to death.

Alan Ladd

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Giacomo Leopardi

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