Death Quotes
The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.Mark Siegle
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Sir Francis Bacon
I am sailing out along parallel 32. 5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean.Muammar Qaddafi
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.Deane Jordan
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.Alfred Tennyson
An answer is always a form of death.John Dean
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
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.Ayn Rand
If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.Donald H. Rumsfeld, on Iraqi Resistance Fighters
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.T. S. Elliot
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.Edna Ferbe
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
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
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?Anaximenes
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Repetition is the death of art.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.Emily Dickinson
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.Peter de Gaston Levis
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Behan
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.Dean Koontz
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.Josef Stalin
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 ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.Homer, The Iliad
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
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)
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
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.Oscar Wilde
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.Sophocles, Electra
