Death Quotes
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Albert Einstein
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.Elbert Hubbard
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
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
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
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
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
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - To others, a death toll.George Whelton
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
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.Edna Ferbe
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.Anthony Robbins
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
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
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 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
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.Aeschylus
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
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.Sophocles
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.Pan Ku
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.Osho, The art of Dying
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.Napoleon Bonaparte
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
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, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
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
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
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.Carl Sandburg
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
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
