Death Quotes
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.Thomas Mann
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.George Fabricius
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.William Shakespeare
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.Edna Ferbe
Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.Deane Jordan
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
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
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.Josef Stalin
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
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.John Donne
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.John Donne
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
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
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
Not going home is already like death.E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.Elbert Hubbard
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.Jean Froissart, 1359
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.A. Mark Wells
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
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
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
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
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.David Searls
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.Napoleon Bonaparte
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.Miguel de Cervantes
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
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
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!Edgar Allen Poe
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
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.Sophocles
