Death Quotes
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.Publilius Syrus
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita", Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
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
Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach
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
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
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
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
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
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.Sophocles
I would fain die a dry death.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
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
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.Tyron Edwards
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.Socrates
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
The first condition of immortality is death.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.Dr. Robert Schulle
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
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
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 sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.Bhagavad Gita
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
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
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.Jean Froissart, 1359
The goal of all life is death.Sigmund Freud
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.Albert Einstein
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.Buddha
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
