Death Quotes

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

- Milton

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain him; if as an enemy, prepare to overcome him. Death has no advantage except when he comes as a stranger.

- Quarles

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

- Antonin Artaud

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

- George Bernard Shaw

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

- Sir Thomas Browne

Dying is like getting audited by the IRS - something that only happens to other people... until it happens to you.

- Jerome P. Crabb

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

- Joseph Stalin

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

- Proverb