Death Quotes
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.Eric Sevareid
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.Epicurus
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Jean Anouilh
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.Thomas Mann
The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.Oscar Wilde
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
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
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...HP Lovecraft, From Beyond
I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Francis Behan
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.Bhagavad Gita
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.Tom Hanks
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.Dr. Robert Schulle
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.Rabbi Harold Kushne
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City
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
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?Anaximenes
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.Tom Stoppard
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Isaac Bashevis Singe
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.Michelangelo Buonarroti
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. N. B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.J. Robert Oppenheime
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.Chief Seattle
Not going home is already like death.E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
