Death Quotes

Death quotes and links to death quotes.

"There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Let be." - Hamlet, William Shakespeare.

"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - from the Bhagavad-Gita, quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer after the first atomic bomb test.

"Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them." - Laurence Binyon, from Lines For the Fallen, in Remembrance for the war dead, death quotes.

• "Death is nothing to us. For all good and bad consists in sense experience, and death is the ending of sense experience. Hence the mortality of life is a matter for contentment." - Epicurus.

"Reverend Sir, now that thou art experiencing the Fundamental Clear Light, try to abide in that state which now thou art experiencing." - Death quote from Tibetan Book of the Dead, Evan-Wentz translation.

"But thought’s the slave of life, and life, time’s fool; / And time that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop." - Hotspur (5.4) Henry IV part 1.

"Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me never,
For I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever." - #7.  Verse on the gravestone of a British charwoman,  brought to the attention of John Kenneth Galbraith by John Maynard Keynes.

The chief problem about death is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave." - Woody Allen.

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin.

Christian Quotes about Death

"Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" (Genesis 3:19).

"I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee" (Ezekiel 27:18)

"Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
If God won't have him the Devil must." - Sir Walter Scott