Death Quotes
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.Anonymous
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
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
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Albert Einstein
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
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
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
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 no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare
Give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.William H. Walton
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
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
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
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.John Berge
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.Ayn Rand
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.Sun Tzu
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
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.Peter de Gaston Levis
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.Froude
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
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.Anouk Aimee
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)
