Death Quotes
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.Alfred Tennyson
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City
Life without a friend is death without a witness.Danish prove
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.Edgar A. Shoaff
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)
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
Death hath so many doors to let out life.John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
He can be lethal death.Jerry Coleman
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
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.Sophocles
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
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
There is something about poverty that smells like death.Zora Neale Hurston
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!Edgar Allen Poe
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.T. S. Elliot
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
The first condition of immortality is death.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.Woody Allen
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.S. G. Tallentyre
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.Emily Dickinson
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
