Death Quotes
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.Albert Einstein
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.Tryon Edwards
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, Death Be Not Proud
Give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.Miguel de Cervantes
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.Joseph Addison
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
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
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
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.Plato, Dialogues, Apology
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?Anaximenes
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.Pan Ku
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
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
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
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
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
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
Give death a better name or die trying.Timothy Leary
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.H. H. Munro (Saki)
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...HP Lovecraft, From Beyond
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.Seneca, Epistulae Morales
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)
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
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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
