Death Quotes
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.Peter de Gaston Levis
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
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.Sophocles
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
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.Marcus Aurelius
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
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.Charles Feidelson, Jr.
For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.Martin Heidegge
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.Josef Stalin
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.Eric Sevareid
Belief is the death of intelligence.Robert Anton Wilson
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
Life without a friend is death without a witness.Danish prove
Is there life before death?Graffito, in Belfast
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.T. S. Elliot
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one - - I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds.Hindu Spiritual
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.Rabbi Harold Kushne
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
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.Sophocles
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.Oscar Wilde
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
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 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
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.George Fabricius
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
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
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
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
