Death Quotes

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - - Ourselves.

Eda LeShan

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

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

Buddha

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

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato, Dialogues, Apology

Is there life before death.

Graffito

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 believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940

Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.

Heywood Brown

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Elbert Hubbard

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.

Albert Einstein

To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J. K. Rowling

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Oscar Wilde

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

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Kahlil Gibran

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

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Danish prove

Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)

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

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

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)

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

I would fain die a dry death.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1