Death Quotes
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.General John Stark
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.Eric Sevareid
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Thomas Browne
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.William Hazlitt
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
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.Homer, The Iliad
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.H. H. Munro (Saki)
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.Heywood Brown
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
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)
Is there life before death.Graffito
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.Deane Jordan
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
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 agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.Tom Stoppard
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.Danish prove
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
Biography lends to death a new terror.Oscar Wilde
Repetition is the death of art.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.Thomas Mann
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.Oliver Wendell Holmes
