Death Quotes
If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.Donald H. Rumsfeld, on Iraqi Resistance Fighters
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.Osho, The art of Dying
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.Josef Stalin
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
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
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
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry
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
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Thomas Browne
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
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
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.Socrates
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.Elbert Hubbard
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
Give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.William Hazlitt
The goal of all life is death.Sigmund Freud
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.Plato
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
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
Repetition is the death of art.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
