Death Quotes
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
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
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.Josef Stalin
Belief is the death of intelligence.Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.Anouk Aimee
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Albert Einstein
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
Give me an incubator or give me death!Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
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
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.Froude
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry
I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift? Of expressing all that is in me.Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.Plato
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. N. B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.J. Robert Oppenheime
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
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.Dave Barry
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.Edgar A. Shoaff
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.Samual Rutherford
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Thomas Browne
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
Death hath so many doors to let out life.John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
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)
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".
