Death Quotes
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.Miguel de Cervantes
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.Edgar A. Shoaff
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
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.Heywood Brown
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
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
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
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.Joe Moore
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
Death is as casual - And often as unexpected - As birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.Jim
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
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
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.Martin Heidegge
Give me an incubator or give me death!Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...HP Lovecraft, From Beyond
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
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
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
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.H. H. Munro (Saki)
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
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.Marcus Aurelius
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
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
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
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.Robert Maynard Hutchins
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.Thomas Mann
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
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
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.Homer, The Iliad
Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.Dave Barry
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
