Quotes on Death
21. "The Only Way John Wick Will Ever Have Freedom And Peace Is In Death."
- The Elder In John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
John Wick, Death, Freedom
22. "A Good Death Only Comes After A Good Life."
- Shimazu in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
John Wick, Death, Life
“The day a n*gga try, that’s the day he die.”
King Von, Life, Death
"Living without passion is like being dead."
BTS: Jungkook, Life, Death
“Maybe because I’m a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Death
“I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid- sentence.”
Johnny Depp, Death
“You learn fast or you die young.”
Kevin Gates, Intelligence/Wisdom, Death
“You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.”
Will Smith, Goals, Death, Truth
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Death
“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, Death
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
Virginia Woolf, Death, Friendship
“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”
Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, Death
“I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.”
John Lennon, Death
“When you bury my body, don’t build any momentum and keep my hands outside so that the world knows that the person who won the whole world had nothing in his hand while dying.”
Alexander the Great, Death
“When my casket is being carried to the grave, leave my hands hanging outside. For empty-handed, I came into this world and empty-handed, I shall go! My whole life has been a hallow waste, a futile exercise, for no one at death can take anything with them!”
Alexander the Great, Death
“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.”
- Alexander's tombstone epitaph”
Alexander the Great, Death
“You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ 'Has your life brought joy to others?”
Morgan Freeman, Belief, Death
“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”
Morgan Freeman, Life, Goals, Death
“It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.”
Mao Zedong, Death
“Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.”
Mao Zedong, Death, Goals
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life, Death
“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”
Wendell Berry, Death, Life
“Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.”
Wendell Berry, Death, Life, Love
“The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.”
Wendell Berry, Time, Love, Death
“I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life.”
Wendell Berry, Life, Death
“I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.”
Theo Von, Death, Love
“… There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.”
Frida Kahlo, Death, Goals
"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
Letter to Perez Cowan
Emily Dickinson, Death
"Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality"
Poem – Because I could not stop for death
Emily Dickinson, Death
"There’s been a death in the opposite house
As laterly as today,
I know it by the numb look
Such houses have always"
Poem – There’s been a death in the opposite house
Emily Dickinson, Death
“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.”
Katharine Hepburn, Death, Success
“The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.”
Katharine Hepburn, Nature, Love, Death
“Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Death
“The world is put back by the death of everyone who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”
Florence Nightingale, Life, Death
“I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.”
Anne Frank, Life, Death
"He suffered ever the same unceasing agonies and in his loneliness pondered always on the same insoluble question: ‘What is this? Can it be that it is Death?’ And the inner voice answered: ‘Yes, it is Death.‘"
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Death
"He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. ‘Where is it? What death?’ There was no fear because there was no death.
In place of death there was light."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Death
"The expression on his face seemed to say that what had needed to be done had been done, and done right. Beside this his expression also seemed to hold warning, a reproach to the living."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Death
"He was much changed and grown even thinner since Pyotr Ivanovich had last seen him, but, as is always the case with the dead, his face was handsomer and above all more dignified than when he was alive."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Death
"Besides considerations as to the possible transfers and promotions likely to result from Ivan Ilych’s death, the mere fact of the death of a near acquaintance aroused, as usual, in all who heard of it the complacent feeling that, “it is he who is dead and not I."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Work, Death
"‘Maybe I did not live as I ought to have done,’ it suddenly occurred to him. ‘But how could that be, when I did everything properly?’ he replied, and immediately dismissed from his mind this, the sole solution of all the riddles of life and death, as something quite impossible."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life, Death
"It is as if I had been going downhill while I imagined I was going up. And that is really what it was. I was going up in public opinion, but to the same extent life was ebbing away from me. And now it is all done and there is only death."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Success, Death
"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Happiness, Death
"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life, Death
"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
Walt Whitman, Life, Death
"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
Walt Whitman, Death
"Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid."
Ricky Gervais, Death, Intelligence/Wisdom
"I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Andy Warhol, Death
"Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner. Bubba was going to be a shrimping boat captain, but instead, he died right there by that river in Vietnam."- Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Friendship, Life, Death
"Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't." -Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life, Death
"Within the war we are all waging with the forces of death, subtle and otherwise, conscious or not—I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior."
Audre Lorde, Death
"People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy."
James Baldwin, Society, Love, Death
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return."
James Baldwin, Life, Death
"I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine."
James Baldwin, Death
"Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it."
James Baldwin, Love, Death
"If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody."
James Baldwin, Life, Love, Death
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Death
"I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."
Harriet Tubman, Freedom, Death
"I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go."
Susan B Anthony, Work, Death
"Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying."
Thomas Paine, Death
"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die."
Stephen Hawking, Death
"Without death, there would be very little progress."
Steve Jobs, Life, Death
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there."
Steve Jobs, Death
"I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete."
Steve Jobs, Life, Death
"This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!"
John Muir, Nature, Death
"On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights."
John Muir, Nature, Life, Death, Ideas
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Death
"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Courage, Love, Life, Death
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
Nelson Mandela, Success, Life, Death
"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
Plato, Death
"People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board."
Betty White, Friendship, Death
"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure."
Teddy Roosevelt, Life, Death
"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."
Socrates, Death
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
Socrates, Death
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
Mark Twain, Death, Life
"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain, Death
"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."