Death Quotes

I would fain die a dry death.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
John berge - we can become anything. that is why injustice is...
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
Miguel de Cervantes
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one - - I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds.
Hindu Spiritual
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Give death a better name or die trying.
Timothy Leary
John dryden - death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we...
Tyron edwards - sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned...
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Eric Sevareid
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.
Percy B. Shelley
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, Meditations
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
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
T. S. Elliot
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
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)
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Sir Francis Bacon
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.
Albert Einstein
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
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
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.
Oscar Wilde
An answer is always a form of death.
John Dean
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Is there life before death?
Graffito, in Belfast
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
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
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita", Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
He can be lethal death.
Jerry Coleman
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
Is there life before death.
Graffito
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
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe