Death Quotes
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
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.Osho, The art of Dying
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.Alice Walke
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.John Donne
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
Is there life before death.Graffito
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.George Fabricius
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.Ayn Rand
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.Peter de Gaston Levis
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, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.Emily Dickinson
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.Dave Barry
Death is as casual - And often as unexpected - As birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.Jim
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott
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
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.Jean Froissart, 1359
To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
I would fain die a dry death.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - - Ourselves.Eda LeShan
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.Sophocles
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.S. G. Tallentyre
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Francis Bacon
Life without a friend is death without a witness.Danish prove
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.Anonymous
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
