Death Quotes

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004

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)

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and 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

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Charles Feidelson, Jr.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Danish prove

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.

Martin Luthe

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.

William Hazlitt

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...

HP Lovecraft, From Beyond

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

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

Martin Heidegge

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon