Death Quotes

Terry pratchet, sourcery - i meant, said ipslore bitterly, what is there in...
Alphonse ka - if we are to abolish the death penalty, i should...
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.
Peter de Gaston Levis
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson Mizne
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
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
Woody allen - on the plus side, death is one of the few things...
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - To others, a death toll.
George Whelton
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dr. Robert Schulle
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
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)
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....
Longfellow
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie
Death is as casual - And often as unexpected - As birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
Jim
Give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
Rodney Yee
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.
Plato
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Saki
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
Mark Twain
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.
Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.
David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
Oscar Wilde
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.
Assyrian Prove
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
Alfred Tennyson