Death Quotes

Stanislaw j. lec,
Emma thompson, vanity fai - i was brought up by very witty people who were...
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato, Dialogues, Apology
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
Eric Hoffe
Baronne anne louise germaine necker de stal stal - we understand death for the first time when he...
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.
Jordan, Robert
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry
The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?
Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.
Sophocles, Electra
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
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 think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Swami Sivanada
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Maya Angelou
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil Gibran
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
I am sailing out along parallel 32. 5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean.
Muammar Qaddafi
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
Yukio Mishima
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
Bhagavad Gita
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
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walke
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll