Death Quotes

Jonathan swift - it is impossible that anything so natural, so...
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edgar allan poe - sleep, those little slices of death, how i loathe...
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
Carl sagan - personally, i would be delighted if there were a...
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. Fumas
Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.
Deane Jordan
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.
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
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 penny for your thoughts? A dollar for your death.
Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William H. Walton
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
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
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
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Lucius Accius
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
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace, Odes
I am sailing out along parallel 32. 5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean.
Muammar Qaddafi
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
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
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.
Josef Stalin
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)
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
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin