Death Quotes
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
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.Emily Dickinson
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 is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.Sophocles
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.Osho, The art of Dying
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.Oscar Wilde
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.Johnny Carson
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.Elbert Hubbard
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
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
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 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)
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.Jonathan Swift
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 not the worst than can happen to men.Plato
I would fain die a dry death.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.Dave Barry
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Thomas Browne
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.Tryon Edwards
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.Oscar Wilde
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.Jordan, Robert
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.Chief Seattle
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
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
