Death Quotes
Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.Anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate
He can be lethal death.Jerry Coleman
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.Danish prove
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
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
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
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
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.Bhagavad Gita
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.John Donne
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.Tom Hanks
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.Charles Feidelson, Jr.
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
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
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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)
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.Jonathan Swift
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
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
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.Publilius Syrus
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!Edgar Allen Poe
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
Give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
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
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
