Death Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about death.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The death is someone who withdraws from himself and returns to us. There are no more dead than those carried by the living.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Death is a lived life. Life is a coming death.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Death is always early and does not forgive anyone.

Elías Canetti

Elías Canetti

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Death accepted with resignation is no honor.

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

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There is something as inevitable as death: life.

René de Chateaubriand

René de Chateaubriand

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Death is harder to accept than to endure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The life of the dead lives on in the memory of the living.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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Nature, seeking a formula to satisfy everyone, finally chose death, which, as expected, has satisfied no one.

Benjamin Constant

Benjamin Constant

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When the age of passions has passed, what else can we desire but to escape from life with the least possible amount of pain?

Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

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Every moment of life is a step towards death.

Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland

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At one time, I tried to convince myself that there is no life after death, but I have found myself unable to do so.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Just as a well-spent day brings sweet sleep, so a well-used life brings a sweet death.