Death Quotes
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.Socrates
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
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.Home
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.Woody Allen
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
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.Mark Siegle
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.Edgar A. Shoaff
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
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark Twain
The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
I am sailing out along parallel 32. 5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean.Muammar Qaddafi
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.Samual Rutherford
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.Marcus Aurelius
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.Napoleon Bonaparte
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.Edna Ferbe
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.Elbert Hubbard
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
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
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.Anonymous
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
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
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Jean Anouilh
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.Aeschylus
