Death Quotes
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.Charles Feidelson, Jr.
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.Eric Hoffe
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.John Donne
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Maya Angelou
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.Carl Sandburg
Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.Napoleon Bonaparte
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.Woody Allen
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.Confucius
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.Anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Repetition is the death of art.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.Sun Tzu
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
Is there life before death.Graffito
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.Robert Bolt
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Sir Francis Bacon
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
Give death a better name or die trying.Timothy Leary
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.Heywood Brown
