Death Quotes

Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Paula poundstone, hbo stand - up routine - they say that the wages of sin is death. but...
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Ka
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.
Terry Pratchet, Sourcery
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
Chief seattle - there is no death. only a change of worlds....
J. robert oppenheimer, quoting
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.
Josef Stalin
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
George Fabricius
I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift? Of expressing all that is in me.
Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank
To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Lucius Accius
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
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Buddha
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
Mark Twain
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
Alfred Tennyson
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
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Sir Francis Bacon
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferbe
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walke
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry
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
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