Death Quotes
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)
Is there life before death?Graffito, in Belfast
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.Josef Stalin
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Belief is the death of intelligence.Robert Anton Wilson
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)
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
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.Sophocles
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.Eric Sevareid
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.George Bernard Shaw
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.Peter de Gaston Levis
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.Anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
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
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
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.George Santayana
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Francis Behan
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
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
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
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
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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".
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.Homer, The Iliad
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
