Death Quotes

“If one lives intensely, the time comes when sleep means bliss. If one loves intensity, the time comes when death seems bliss.... The life I want is a life I could not endure for eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I prefer. Neither should I like not to die.... For most of us death does not come soon enough. Lives are spoiled and made rotten by the sense that death is distant and irrelevant. One lives better when one expects to die, say, at forty, when one says to oneself long before one is twenty: whatever I may accomplish, I should be able to accomplish it by then; and what I have not done by then, I am not likely to do ever. One cannot count on living until one is forty - or thirty- but it makes for a better life if one has a rendezvous with death. Not only love can be deepened and made more intense and impassioned by the expectation of impending death; all life is enriched by it.”
- Walter Kauffman, Faith Of A Heretic

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."
- Woody Allen

"Violence is as American as cherry pie."
- Rap Brown

"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open to it."
- Luscius Annaeus Seneca

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
- Bertrand Russell

"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow."
- Horace