Death Quotes
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.Josef Stalin
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark Twain
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
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
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
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
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
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).
I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Francis Behan
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?Anaximenes
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.Miguel de Cervantes
Death hath so many doors to let out life.John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
Not going home is already like death.E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...HP Lovecraft, From Beyond
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
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
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.Emily Dickinson
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
An answer is always a form of death.John Dean
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.Rabbi Harold Kushne
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.Plato
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.Homer, The Iliad
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.Josef Stalin
