Death Quotes
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".
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.Thomas Mann
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.Danish prove
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.Kahlil Gibran
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.J. J. Fumas
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
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
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
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.Tom Stoppard
Is there life before death.Graffito
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.Plato
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.Peter de Gaston Levis
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
A penny for your thoughts? A dollar for your death.Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.Emily Dickinson
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
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 was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
An answer is always a form of death.John Dean
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
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.David Searls
