Death Quotes

Marcus aurelius - death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is...
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.
Plato
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.
Oscar Wilde
Albert einstein - intellectual growth should commence at birth and...
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
Anouk Aimee
Yukio mishima - if we value so highly the dignity of life, how...
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Sir Francis Bacon
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Josef Stalin
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
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
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert
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
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu
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
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
Repetition is the death of art.
Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
Danish prove
For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.
Martin Heidegge
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Ka
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry
For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.
Bhagavad Gita
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.
Assyrian Prove
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.
Sophocles, Electra
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
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
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beeche
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Charles Feidelson, Jr.