Death Quotes
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.Latin Prove
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one - - I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds.Hindu Spiritual
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
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
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.Don Delillo
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
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
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)
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.Publilius Syrus
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.Bhagavad Gita
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.General John Stark
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.Buddha
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.Alfred Tennyson
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
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.Heywood Brown
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Maya Angelou
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
If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.Donald H. Rumsfeld, on Iraqi Resistance Fighters
Death hath so many doors to let out life.John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The goal of all life is death.Sigmund Freud
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Sir Thomas Brown
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.Pan Ku
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
He can be lethal death.Jerry Coleman
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.T. S. Elliot
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
