Death Quotes
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.Oscar Wilde
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony.Leopold von Sacher - Masoch, Venus in Furs
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
Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
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
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.Eric Hoffe
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.Joseph Addison
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.Alice Walke
In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.Martin Luthe
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
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
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
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.John Berge
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.Peter de Gaston Levis
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".
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...HP Lovecraft, From Beyond
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.Dave Barry
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
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
