Death Quotes
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
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
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
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
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
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
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
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
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
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.Ayn Rand
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Behan
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.Jean Froissart, 1359
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.Alice Walke
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.Deane Jordan
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.Dr. Robert Schulle
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.Eric Sevareid
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.Kahlil Gibran
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
Is there life before death?Graffito, in Belfast
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
