Death Quotes
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Sir Thomas Brown
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.Marcus Aurelius
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
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
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.Joe Moore
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.Danish prove
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
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 Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.S. G. Tallentyre
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.J. J. Fumas
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.William H. Walton
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 legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.Elbert Hubbard
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.Don Delillo
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.George Santayana
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.Anonymous
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".
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
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)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
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 disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.Anthony Robbins
