Death Quotes
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - To others, a death toll.George Whelton
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.Alphonse Ka
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
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
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.Sophocles
For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.Bhagavad Gita
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
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
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
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.Oscar Wilde
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
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
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Albert Einstein
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.Charles Feidelson, Jr.
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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.Josef Stalin
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
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
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
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.Jean Froissart, 1359
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
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
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
